Lisp is often known as one of the oldest programming languages. Indeed, it's conception can be traced back to research done by John McCarthy in 1960. In these series of articles I present an implementation of a Lisp written in the C language. These articles assume some familiarity in a Lisp like Scheme or Common Lisp.

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This post discusses the implementation of a Lisp interpreter in the C language, including the Lisp reader and writer. It explains how to lexically analyze a Lisp expression, create a list structure using pairs, and convert a C string into tokens. The post provides enough information to start evaluating different syntactic expressions.

Roll A Lisp In C

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