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I propose the word “gitiot” for an idiot who posts a “there oughta be…” without googling it first. (I can’t figure out how I missed this. I’ve been in a “lisp on the one hand and Julia on the other” bubble for years. It simply never occurred to me to look for this, and it never crossed my desktop. Gitiot!!)

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To be fair to yourself, LispSyntax.jl is more of a proof of concept than something that anyone would want to actually do significant coding in as can be seen by the TODO list in the README[1]. It also hasn't seen any active development in several years.

[1] https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl

Just tried it; sorta works; the most basic examples run, but the repl is broken; probably designed for an older version of Julia; I'll see what I can do with it. Anyway, thanks!

The REPL had a patch, https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl/issues/36, but for some reason it didn't get released 3 years ago when the patch was actually created.

I had been intrigued by Lisp for years, but it was Julia's roots in Lisp that finally got me to explore the Lisp languages. I actually haven't used LispSyntax.jl, but it's close to what I'd like to have in a language.

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