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by tinco 4117 days ago
Given the domain name I was hoping they'd first implement a Lisp in 12 lines of Javascript, and then implement the new language in that lisp, that would've been an interesting tutorial.

I get that it's a beginners tutorial and they have some constraints, but it starts off with "let's dream up a language" and then presents a super standard language, it's basically just Javascript with obligatory semicolons..

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... and then it gets continuations, and that's where it becomes interesting.

Any case, the intent was purely didactic, but I did implement a Scheme dialect based on half of that code. To be released some day...