[Coco] Basic Lisp

[J Arcane]

Nice! It'll be interesting to try if you do get it working. XLISP is pretty
good, as these things go (though no lambda or macros is kinda limiting, as
is the lack of support for bigger numbers than 16-bit).

I'm actually hacking my own Lisp-flavored BASIC dialect now (on the PC
though, in Racket), in part because of all the talk lately. I'll perhaps
share the link when I get something usable.

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:42 AM, Stephen Pereira <spereira1952 at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I remember that someone posted that he had come across an article and
> listing for Basic Lisp, a small version of Lisp coded in TRS-80 Basic.  The
> article and listing is found in 80 Microcomputing magazine from March 1983.
>
> Interestingly enough, I recently stumbled across this, as well.  I was
> intrigued, so I captured the Basic code from the text of the magazine that
> is available at archive.org <http://archive.org/>:
> https://archive.org/stream/80-microcomputing-magazine-1983-03/80Microcomputing_0383_djvu.txt
> <
> https://archive.org/stream/80-microcomputing-magazine-1983-03/80Microcomputing_0383_djvu.txt
> >
>
> I believe that I have cleaned up all the OCR errors in the code by
> comparing it with the listing in the PDF scan of the magazine.  I have
> attached the file, so anyone else who is interested can have it, too.
>
> The Basic code is originally for other TRS-80 computers besides the CoCo,
> so it will take a bit more cleanup to get it to go on the CoCo.  I gave it
> a brief try, and after clearing out the DEFINT and DEFSTR commands in line
> 15, I got an OM error in that same line.  I guess that the CLEAR and DIM
> statements use up a bunch of memory, leaving nothing left.
>
> Oh, well, I’ll keep playing around with it, and I’ll let you know what
> progress (of lack thereof) I make.
>
> smp
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