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A few years ago I wrote a minimal lisp in erlang using pg's paper. I called it erlisp[1]. I did it in order to learn Erlang while reading the original Seven Languages in Seven Weeks book.

If you want to learn the basics of a language, I highly recommend writing a lisp in it using only the Roots of Lisp paper and the target language's reference guide. It's a fun challenge.

[1] (yes, it's a pun) https://github.com/breckinloggins/erlisp



> [1] (yes, it's a pun) https://github.com/breckinloggins/erlisp

It's also a portmanteau!


That's very cool :-) I think rvirding would approve ;-)

Did you ever check out LFE afterwards. to compare your approach with Robert's?


Yes, implementing languages is fun, implementing lisp doubly so.




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