Lisp implementation in sed | Hacker News Reader

Lisp implementation in sed

github.com

62 pointseatonphil15 comments

When the Lisp in Make post hit the front page of HN earlier today, I was astonished. This has topped that experience of WTF/disbelief, which I thought previously impossible :D

# FORTH in Bash

- More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bashforth

- The script: http://web.archive.org/web/20141107021446/http://www.forthfr...

- The extension WP mentions: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ForthHub/ForthFreak/master...

- A screenshot: http://web.archive.org/web/20141106213840/http://www.forthfr...

# Tetris in Sed (by a russian girl)

- Info (in Russian): http://uuner.livejournal.com/55238.html

- Working downloads: https://github.com/uuner/sedtris

# Arkanoid and Sokoban written in sed

- http://aurelio.net/projects/sedarkanoid/

- http://aurelio.net/projects/sedsokoban/

# Sed LLVM emitter

- TBD

Here's a Lisp-ish language implemented in Haskell's type system that I wrote a couple years ago. Computation is everywhere!

https://github.com/seliopou/typo

Both written by the same guy!

To quote that well known sage (Sinbad) ...

"Well ... Sounds like you need a woman!"

(kidding, of course :-D)

There's always this classic with the same sentiment: http://cryptnet.net/mirrors/texts/kissedagirl.html

I've always loved the license for awklisp – see the bottom half of the README:

https://github.com/darius/awklisp

I should look at making a Racket Language for a never going to happen but SED replacement. Limited to just data munging.

A place to start:

    http://docs.racket-lang.org/mzlib/mzlib_awk.html?q=awk

"AWK" in Racket.

Now that is awesome thank you! The more I have been looking into this the more I see how Racket could be the best tool for data munging.

Lisp in sed? There are two things wrong with that ;)

I am dreaming of a Lisp implemented in m4.

I am dreaming of a JavaScript implemented in sed, which itself implements Lisp.

What's the motivation? Just an academic exercise?

GNU sed only.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com