Nicolas Martyanoff on Nostr: I had some fun: went through chapter 2 (Syntax) of the #CommonLisp standard and ...

I had some fun: went through chapter 2 (Syntax) of the #CommonLisp standard and bootstrapped a reader. I learned a few things:

- Pure C99 is (still) easy to read and to write.
- The standard is *very* well written: just do what is described and it works.
- If you did not read the standard, there are a lot of things you do not know about Common Lisp.

Now I need minimal support for arbitrary-precision arithmetic, and I do not want any dependency.