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A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.

The lone lisp heapLike many dynamic languages out there, lone started out simple. It was essentially a collection of data structures written in C, an union comprising all of those types, a typed value structure containing the union plus metadata, and a cu

Baby's Second Garbage Collectorhow is garbbage collected how langauge get memoryA very confused programming neophyte Thirteen years ago, in two thousand thirteen, Baby's First Garbage Collector was born. Now he's grown up. He's outgrown his shallow kiddie

Generators in lone lispDelimited continuations were not enough. Gotta have more. Gotta have generators. Lone now features its own dedicated generator type. It will eventually form the foundation of iteration in lone lisp. (import (lone print set lambda ge

Delimited continuations in lone lispLone now supports delimited continuations!It took me a long time but it's finally here: lone now supports one of the most powerful control mechanisms there is. (import (lone print lambda control transfer) (math +)) (pri

Self-contained Linux applications with lone lispI started the lone lisp project to create a lisp language and environment exclusively for Linux. I built into it support for arbitrary Linux system calls so that it would be possible to implement any program

Managing dotfiles with MakeMake is an old tool, an assembly language of sorts for build systems. Many have tried to replace it. Many have tried to reinvent it. Most people prefer to avoid it if at all possible. So why use it to manage dotfiles of all thin

Linux system callsFor a long time I felt there was something unique about Linux. Something was different, couldn't quite figure out what it was. Only when I learned about Linux's system call interface did I finally understand.This article contains everyth