newLISP Fan Club

Hi,
last week I got nerd-sniped when I saw an alternative to the 'parens-heavy' syntax of newlisp, wisp: https://www.draketo.de/software/wisp.

I've seen more alternative lisp syntaxes over the years (f.i. rhombus, shrubbery in Racket) but this is the first time that I can see this a viable alternative so I made a small newlisp module (indent.lsp) which you can download from https://github.com/luxint/wisp-newlisp.


As an example this is wisp syntax:

define : factorial n
  if : zero? n
    . 1
    * n : factorial : - n 1

which gets then transpiled into:

(define (factorial n )
  (if (zero? n)
    1
    (* n (factorial (- n 1)))))

Have fun and let me know if you like it!

I think experiments that people want to put effort into are worth trying. 👍

Hi guys,

How can we attract attention to newlisp from folks who recognize its worth and have the skills to maintain and improve it? Maybe fork it and re-write it in Nim, Go, or Rust? If we went that direction it might get people from those communities interested. We could name the fork Nimlisp, or something.

What do you think?

https://github.com/newlisp

That's crazy that Github keeps accounts that haven't had a single activity in the last 15 years, and deleting them would cause no harm.

When I asked Lutz this question he got back to me with a link to the same repo @iacore posted: https://github.com/kosh04/newlisp

So I guess maybe that's where people should look to send PRs? But I see nobody seems to be maintaining it, and it seems to be setup more as a mirror.

It's back up!

Humm,

Two years ago, also at the end of February, the website was down as well.
https://newlispfanclub.com/index.php?msg=25208

Hi,

I'd like to try newLISP but the website has been down for me all day.

Thank you very match.

I sent you an email including the book. Maybe it helps.