On: Lisp in about 200 lines of Ruby

[mdemare]

According to pg, seven: (quote, atom, eq, car, cdr, cons, and cond)

Eighth paragraph: http://www.paulgraham.com/ilc03.html

[jmatt → mdemare]

Ya that should be the minimum required to bootstrap. I always thought the definitive minimum code for lisp was here:

http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/paulgraham/jmc.lisp

Or at least from a historic perspective.

[onewland → mdemare]

Quote as a predefined macro could be important though, in a Lisp, if you expect to be doing a lot of macro magic, and I don't see it here.

This is cool, though, and very readable; I know what all the code is doing with a quick glance. Cheers to the author.