PicoLisp Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Everything Picolisp can do, and more

  Gotta admit, the author has a nice sense of eDSL https://picolisp.com/wiki/?taskDB. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• The Landscape of Lisp

  It doesn't grow from cons cells, which some people think is crucial for an authentic Lisp. They also tend to exclude Clojure. I think maybe the Janet designers don't want to get bogged down in the language wars, and don't really care whether lispers enjoy their language or not. A language with Lisp in the name and cons cells that a purist might argue isn't an authentic Lisp is Picolisp, e.g. Because it has FEXPR:s... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Am I crazy or is Android development awful?

  Build your Apps in PicoLisp without an Android SDK "PilBox (`PicoLisp Box') is a generic Android App which allows to write Apps in pure PicoLisp, without touching Java, and without the need of an Android SDK. "You do not need to root your device. And - if you prefer - you do not need a separate development machine (PC or laptop): All can be done in a terminal on the device, and even in a Lisp REPL while the App is... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Anyone got a contact at OpenAI. They have a spider problem

  A similar thing happened in 2011 when the picolisp project published a 'ticker', something like a markov chain generating pages on the fly. https://picolisp.com/wiki/?ticker It's a nice type of honeypot. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• PicoLisp Tutorials

  I love(d) PicoLisp. I have run Windows, Linux (many flavors on many machines), and MacOS, but my working OS is Windows, and I could not get the x64 PicoLisp running on Windows back then without using Cygwin or MinGW. I can run it on WSL[1], however, it still requires a POSIX environment. Is there a way to compile a Windows binary without the POSIX required for a working PicoLisp environment? I know it switched to... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Kilo Lisp: A Kilo Byte-Sized Lisp System

  Maybe also mention PicoLisp: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home ... In part because of this interesting alternative to Android Studio for interacting with the Android SDK through a LISP REPL: https://picolisp.com/wiki/?PilBox Surprisingly the folks behind Clojure were never able to fill this gap despite the Android SDK being based on Java. One of my long-term goals is to create an analog of AutoHotkey for Android. ... - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• The German School of Lisp (2011)

  Https://picolisp.com/wiki/?alternativeMacOSRepository Only found it, haven't tried it. Apparently it can work on macOS now. - Source: Hacker News / almost 4 years ago

• Common Lisp vs Racket

  Those days I'm really rooting for PicoLisp (https://picolisp.com/wiki/?home). - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Dillo web browser homepage is for sale

  +1, it is also a joy to customize via the well-documented config file. E.g. Adding custom search operators is very straightforward and flexible. With some unix-y thinking, one could probably also accomplish some other useful tricks on the address bar, simply by writing a string substitution one-liner into the rc file. Compare that to about:config, Add-ons, etc. Ha. I somehow also very much enjoyed the not-so-good... - Source: Hacker News / about 4 years ago

• Which lisp should I learn first?

  Sure, PicoLisp (https://picolisp.com/wiki) is pretty cool. As implied by the name, it is even smaller than a modern Scheme, but it has some neat features including a built-in database that you can query Prolog-style, and baked-in dead-simple FFI for C (which it's written in) and Java (if you connect it to a running JVM). It is only available on Linux (though that includes WSL), so if you want to run it on a Mac... Source: about 5 years ago