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		meric on Aug 1, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ooh Ooh My Turn Why Lisp? (2008) Yes, I wanted a version of Lua with Macro's that reused familiar syntax (for lispers), that can run on LuaJIT, and is implemented in Lua completely.

groovy2shoes on Aug 2, 2016 [–]

https://github.com/baguette/lemma

I've unfortunately let it languish for the last few years, but I'm about to pick back up a bit for the 2016 Lisp Summer Game Jam. I've got a handful of big, backward-compat-breaking changes in the queue, but it should start to stabilize again within a couple of weeks.

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