---
title: "Roll A Lisp In C"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/roll-a-lisp-in-c-y4ips2taw
source_url: https://swatson555.github.io/posts/2020-01-18-make-a-lisp-1.html
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2024-05-12T14:29:36.868Z
updated: 2024-05-12T14:29:35.020Z
tags: ["lisp"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 2
comments: 1
language: en
---

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# Roll A Lisp In C

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 4 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

This post discusses the implementation of a Lisp interpreter in the C language, including the Lisp reader and writer. It explains how to lexically analyze a Lisp expression, create a list structure using pairs, and convert a C string into tokens. The post provides enough information to start evaluating different syntactic expressions.

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