Pierpaolo BERNARDI <pierpaolo@secondbox.net> wrote:
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| Javier <javuchi@gmail.com> wrote:
| > What are the strictly minimun set of Lisp commands and/or keywords that
| > are needed to recreate a complete CL system?
| > I'd like to debate this here, and got some conclusions from you experts.
| 
| http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/MetaCircular.html
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That paper isn't really about a "strictly minimum set of Lisp
[special forms]", rather, it's an examination of the non-uniqueness
of any such "minimum set", and how some "basic" special forms
can be expressed in terms of others no more or less "basic".

And as I said in a parallel reply, even it doesn't do nearly a
complete job -- it just points the reader at the enormity of the
available design space within which one has to make tradeoffs and
eventually "just pick something" as the basis set for a specific
implementation.

Still very much worth reading, of course...  ;-}  ;-}


-Rob

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