"You can't get to the moon by piling up chairs." Home About Loper OS Guiding Principles RSS Feed Contact PGP « Of Lisp Macros and Washing Machines The Ultimate Cross-Platform Malware » The Simplest Lisp Machine Looking for an inexpensive, robust Lisp system?  Consider this one: Tried it?  Not satisfied? Well, don’t blame me: it meets all of the basic qualifications for “Lispiness”: Does not hide the abstract syntax tree from programmers. Does not force a non-modifiable syntax on programmers. Does not impose an arbitrary order of sub-expression evaluation on programmers. Does not force a bondage-and-discipline type system on programmers. Does not create an arbitrary distinction between “run-time” and “compile-time.” There are a great many other things this amazing silicon device refrains from doing ! Such as, for instance… computing.  And yet, it is stil...