What is pLisp?
pLisp is an integrated Lisp development environment.
What dialect of Lisp is pLisp based on?
pLisp is not based on any single Lisp dialect, but draws inspiration from Scheme. However, its macro system is based on Common Lisp (backquote, comma and comma-at).
What features does pLisp support?
1. Basic operators like CAR, CDR, and other language primitives
2. Other operators and utility functions written in pLisp itself
3. Exception handling in the form of '(try .. (catch ..) ..)'
4. Garbage collection
5. Foreign function interface
6. Ability to store and load images (both at the system level and at the level of individual objects)
7. Macros
8. Debugger (break, resume, inspect variables)
9. A package/namespace system
10. Continuations
11. A basic but complete object system that supports inheritance, encapsulation, etc.
12. Graphical IDE
Why do we need yet another Lisp system?
pLisp started out as a hobby project, an implementation of an interpreter embodying the concepts in Paul Graham's "Roots of Lisp". As its feature-set kept growing, my dissatisfaction with existing Lisp development systems and my missing the beauty, power and elegance of Smalltalk environments in these systems prompted me to make pLisp more than just a command-line interpreter and add features like a system browser, workspace, and other good stuff.
My current objective with pLisp is for it to serve as a) a friendly Lisp environment for beginners and b) an end-to-end demonstration of the construction of a Lisp-based programming language system from scratch (object system design, virtual machines and intermediate code generation, garbage collection, serialization, just-in-time compilation, exceptions/continuations, and so on). And also serve as my personal programming environment, of course.
What platforms is pLisp available on?
pLisp is right now Linux-only. I may port it to other platforms in the future.
What about the license?
pLisp is licensed under GPL v3.
How do I install pLisp?
pLisp is installed by running 'make' on the provided make file.
What do I need to install pLisp?
You will need a) the GTK+3.0 development package (libgtk-3-dev) b) the Tiny C Compiler development files (libtcc.h and libtcc.a) and c) libffi
pLisp also uses Emin Martinian's Red Black Tree code in its GC implementation (this code is shipped along with pLisp, so you don't have to go out and grab it).
How do I report bugs and other issues?
You can email me at rajesh dot jayaprakash @ gmail dot com
Where is the documentation?
A user manual is in the works. I have some blog posts that talk about pLisp internals. I may expand these posts into a developers' manual in the future.
pLisp is an integrated Lisp development environment.
What dialect of Lisp is pLisp based on?
pLisp is not based on any single Lisp dialect, but draws inspiration from Scheme. However, its macro system is based on Common Lisp (backquote, comma and comma-at).
What features does pLisp support?
1. Basic operators like CAR, CDR, and other language primitives
2. Other operators and utility functions written in pLisp itself
3. Exception handling in the form of '(try .. (catch ..) ..)'
4. Garbage collection
5. Foreign function interface
6. Ability to store and load images (both at the system level and at the level of individual objects)
7. Macros
8. Debugger (break, resume, inspect variables)
9. A package/namespace system
10. Continuations
11. A basic but complete object system that supports inheritance, encapsulation, etc.
12. Graphical IDE
Why do we need yet another Lisp system?
pLisp started out as a hobby project, an implementation of an interpreter embodying the concepts in Paul Graham's "Roots of Lisp". As its feature-set kept growing, my dissatisfaction with existing Lisp development systems and my missing the beauty, power and elegance of Smalltalk environments in these systems prompted me to make pLisp more than just a command-line interpreter and add features like a system browser, workspace, and other good stuff.
My current objective with pLisp is for it to serve as a) a friendly Lisp environment for beginners and b) an end-to-end demonstration of the construction of a Lisp-based programming language system from scratch (object system design, virtual machines and intermediate code generation, garbage collection, serialization, just-in-time compilation, exceptions/continuations, and so on). And also serve as my personal programming environment, of course.
What platforms is pLisp available on?
pLisp is right now Linux-only. I may port it to other platforms in the future.
What about the license?
pLisp is licensed under GPL v3.
How do I install pLisp?
pLisp is installed by running 'make' on the provided make file.
What do I need to install pLisp?
You will need a) the GTK+3.0 development package (libgtk-3-dev) b) the Tiny C Compiler development files (libtcc.h and libtcc.a) and c) libffi
pLisp also uses Emin Martinian's Red Black Tree code in its GC implementation (this code is shipped along with pLisp, so you don't have to go out and grab it).
How do I report bugs and other issues?
You can email me at rajesh dot jayaprakash @ gmail dot com
Where is the documentation?
A user manual is in the works. I have some blog posts that talk about pLisp internals. I may expand these posts into a developers' manual in the future.
