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FWIW, PicoLisp[0] is one of those lisp dialects that went way out of its way to be syntactically simple/pure/consistent. Whether this is a good idea, I don't know, but it is nevertheless an interesting example of a modern-made lisp that actually considers less data types (i.e. numbers, symbols and lists) to be a virtue.

[0] = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PicoLisp

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I have been interested in taking PicoLisp for a spin, but I've found the friction of installing on OSX a bit much. Do you know of an easier way to use PicoLisp, without re-hacking gcc back into the system?

I have no experience compiling anything on OSX, so I am not sure if I will be very helpful.

Looking at the download page, it looks like the OSX version is 32-bit only: "It should compile and run on 32-bit GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X (Darwin) and Cygwin/Win32 distributions, and on 64-bit GNU/Linux systems." Reading through the INSTALL file seems to confirm this. [0]

A while ago (2013), some one seems to have gotten a 64-bit version up and running on OSX through make emu (don't know what the emulation option exactly is, so I can't say if it is relevant). [1]

[0] = https://github.com/evanrmurphy/PicoLisp/blob/master/INSTALL [1] = http://picolisp.software-lab.narkive.com/oCd1TRXz/pre-compil...

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