I'm always impressed how the magic of interpreters and compilers can be explained so succinctly.
Inspired by Jonesforth, I wrote a complete Lisp interpreter in a single ARM assembly file: https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp
Inspired by Jonesforth, I wrote a complete Lisp interpreter in a single ARM assembly file: https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp
Thanks for the compliment and the link to TSTC. I'll add it to my personal list.
I've become interested in Lisp every couple of years. This fall I even learned Clojure and implemented a Lisp interpreter in Python. I searched a lot for any open-source Lisp implementation in assembly, but found none. Here it is!
I thought a lot about bootstrapping, too, since apparently almost every compiler is written in C these days. Somewhere I got the idea that in the 1970s someone wrote a compiler in assembly and that was used to bootstrap the first C compiler. Guess I'm a romantic, but for me it's important that we know how to get where we are now. Having a high-level language implemented in assembly is quite essential to that, IMO.
I've failed more than once to wrap my stupid brain around lisp but after reading your code, something clicked. I dare say I think I get it! https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp/blob/master/arpilisp.s
It's all extraordinarily clean and clear (and must set a new world record for most thorough comment --1120 lines!)
While quickly reading through it, my first idea was getting the PI to boot directly to it. :)