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37 lines
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# beowulf
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LISP 1.5 is to all Lisp dialects as Beowulf is to Emglish literature.
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## What this is
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A work-in-progress towards an implementation of Lisp 1.5 in Clojure.
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## BUT WHY?!!?!
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Because.
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Because Lisp is the only computer language worth learning, and if a thing is worth learning, it's worth learning properly; which means going back to the beginning and trying to understand that.
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Because there is, so far as I know, no working implementation of Lisp 1.5 for modern machines.
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Because I'm barking mad, and this is therapy.
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## Installation
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Download from http://example.com/FIXME.
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## Usage
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`java -jar beowulf-0.1.0-standalone.jar`
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## Learning Lisp 1.5
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The `Lisp 1.5 Programmer's Manual` is still
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[in print, ISBN 13 978-0-262-13011-0](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/lisp-15-programmers-manual); but it's also
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[available online](http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%201.5%20Programmers%20Manual.pdf).
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## License
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Copyright © 2019 Simon Brooke. Licensed under the GNU General Public License,
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version 2.0 or (at your option) any later version.
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