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AI Mirror’s Miracle-Curse

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I spent a satisfying weekend writing a Lua-to-Lisp transpiler in Bison and RE/flex a modern alternative to Flex for C++. The transpiler translates Lua language constructs to Lisp. Dare I say that Lua ...
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Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...
Redstart (named after the bird) is a lightweight Lisp interpreter written in C++ with a focus on shell scripting. It lets you combine the expressive power of Lisp with the practicality of the Unix ...
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