LinuxCare: Wasn't the LISP interpreter written using lex and yacc?Oops, I never got the memo - a while back I wrote a Lisp interpreter using the venerable old tools. Now is as good a time as any to release the interpreter in the wild -- here it is.
Stallman: No, absolutely not. There's no reason to use lex and yacc to write a LISP interpreter. The syntax is so simple you don't need it. You'd just be making things harder.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Lisp interpreter
From an old interview with Richard Stallman, via comp.lang.lisp: