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This is a project announcement.

I have been making a Lisp language for the past year, or more. My
original goal is to make a minimal Lisp language, that anyone can hack
around.

I chose tiny-lisp for the basis of this language. Then, I gave it a
name: lali. During the course of development, and after much thinking,
I reached some insights about programming languages, and I put some of
those insights into lali.

Then, I added a new goal: making the programmers mind joyful while
programming. This was done by introducing the constants, and 'f' and
't' and 'n', and by introducing the primitive function 'fill'.
Afterwards, I also have added the primitive function 'say'. All of
these, address some of today's programming issues and ease the mind of
the programmer.

Keeping lali minimal is also a goal. Specially for hackability.


lali is reaching some maturity, and is now safe to be used. Reporting
issues or contributing with git patches are welcome, and can be emailed
to me :-) .

lali depends on GNU Readline for execution. And to build it, now need
the basic suit for building C in GNU. To build the documentation, you
need `md2html` (although I will be changing the documentation format
from Markdown to Texinfo, in the near future).

Expect few or more changes to be added to the project.

Source code: http://tilde.club/~keyboardan/git/lali.git/
Language Documentation: http://tilde.club/~keyboardan/lali/
Another publication: gopher://tilde.club/0/~keyboardan/phlog/2025-11-30__Lali_Another_Lisp_Imple= mentation_release.txt

If you want to talk anything about lali or Lisp in general, you may, or
email me, or write an article reply on this message thread :-) .


Cheers for Freedom ;-) ,

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On 2026-08-20, keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

I have been making a Lisp language for the past year, or more. My
original goal is to make a minimal Lisp language, that anyone can hack around.

this is the coolest. I love little languages. I need to be honest with
myself and admit I probably won't have time to play with it, but I'm
still glad you made and shared it. I'll share it around with some lisp
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James Tomasino <tomasino@cosmic.voyage> writes:

On 2026-08-20, keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

I have been making a Lisp language for the past year, or more. My
original goal is to make a minimal Lisp language, that anyone can hack
around.

this is the coolest. I love little languages. I need to be honest with
myself and admit I probably won't have time to play with it, but I'm
still glad you made and shared it. I'll share it around with some lisp lovers.

Hi tomasino!

Thank you /very much/ for replying. Your enthusiasm and your kindness
passes through into here :-D .

And thank you for your honesty. I have made lali because I find
Scheme's eval application too complicated, because Scheme deviates too
much (in my liking) from the original LISP, and because I find Common
Lisp too bloated.

I took the proper time to choose a source code base which was worthy (tiny-lisp). And I fixed some bugs in tiny-lisp code (didn't share
these because I don't have a github account, and I prefer submitting
patches the git-send-email(1) way).

lali is still improving :-) .

Do share the source code. And say to people that they can contact me to
the email address in the headers of the source code files'. Or that
people can send me nice git patches.

Making lali did give me knowledge, and I learned from it. I now have a
better opinion on what is, to me, a good Lisp x-P .

I hope every person enjoys lali... :-) .


Cheers for Freedom,

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keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

I took the proper time to choose a source code base which was worthy >(tiny-lisp). And I fixed some bugs in tiny-lisp code (didn't share
these because I don't have a github account, and I prefer submitting
patches the git-send-email(1) way).

I think tiny-lisp will benefit from your work, even if you share it as
series of paches or give the a URL to your repository for selective
merging. The means do not matter in this situation as much as your
actual contributions. A caring maintainer will find a way to integrate
your changes into his project. Do share!
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ant <ant@tilde.club> writes:

Do share!

To which email address? That is the question...

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keyboardan to ant:

Do share!

To which email address? That is the question...

Try this one:

Name: Matthias Pirstitz
Email: matp@matp.at

It is likely the contact of the mainainer of <https://github.com/matp/tiny-lisp> .
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ant <ant@tilde.club> writes:

keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> wrote:

I took the proper time to choose a source code base which was worthy >>(tiny-lisp). And I fixed some bugs in tiny-lisp code (didn't share
these because I don't have a github account, and I prefer submitting >>patches the git-send-email(1) way).

I think tiny-lisp will benefit from your work, even if you share it as
series of paches or give the a URL to your repository for selective
merging. The means do not matter in this situation as much as your
actual contributions. A caring maintainer will find a way to integrate
your changes into his project. Do share!

Hi Matthias.

Just noticing you that lali (a tiny-lisp fork) project lives at:

- https://gitlab.com/alexandre1985/lali/

There have been some improvements to tiny-lisp in lali. Do check lali's source-code commits.

tilde.projects Newsgroup is also a place where discussion's around lali
will happen. To publish to this Newsgroup, you will need an account or
in http://tilde.club/ or in http://sdf.org/ . You are welcome!


Cheers for Freedom,

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ant <ant@tilde.club> writes:

keyboardan to ant:

Do share!

To which email address? That is the question...

Try this one:

Name: Matthias Pirstitz
Email: matp@matp.at

It is likely the contact of the mainainer of <https://github.com/matp/tiny-lisp> .

Thanks ant.

It happens that I already had Matthias' email address stored locally,
and that I also had already sent Matthias an email in the past, without receiving a reply.

Either way, I went along and have sent per yet another message.

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keyboardan:

It happens that I already had Matthias' email address
stored locally, and that I also had already sent Matthias
an email in the past, without receiving a reply.

Well then, if does not reply in a week, I can post your
e-mail in the Issues section of the project's Github page,
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ant <ant@tilde.club> writes:

keyboardan:

It happens that I already had Matthias' email address
stored locally, and that I also had already sent Matthias
an email in the past, without receiving a reply.

Well then, if does not reply in a week, I can post your
e-mail in the Issues section of the project's Github page,
if you permit me to do so.

Please no, ant, I don't permit it.

Thank you, anyway.

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keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> writes:

ant <ant@tilde.club> writes:

keyboardan:

It happens that I already had Matthias' email address
stored locally, and that I also had already sent Matthias
an email in the past, without receiving a reply.

Well then, if does not reply in a week, I can post your
e-mail in the Issues section of the project's Github page,
if you permit me to do so.

Please no, ant, I don't permit it.

Thank you, anyway.

... but feel free to promote lali, even in the Issues section.

You may give the URL of lali's online Git repo (there are 2 different
places for lali, online).

Thanks.

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keyboardan to ant:

Well then, if does not reply in a week, I can post your
e-mail in the Issues section of the project's Github
page, if you permit me to do so.

Please no, ant, I don't permit it.

OK.

... but feel free to promote lali, even in the Issues
section.

You may give the URL of lali's online Git repo (there are
2 different places for lali, online).

My idea was to bring his attention specifically to your
fixes and improvements in tiny-lisp that you failed to do
yourself because you have no Github account. It is for that
reason that I proposed to re-post your e-mail. I am not
going to promote lali in tiny-lisp issues; that would be
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