# lam -- Lisp Acdw Made

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![lam logo by m455](/lam/plain/logo.png)

hi, i'm acdw.
this is my lisp.

## about lam

lam is a little toy lisp evaluator
written in lua
that isn't fennel.

it's still very much a work-in-progress.

## installing lam

### dependencies

lam is built against luajit 2.0 and has only been tested on that.
it might work on other luae, though.

## using lam

run `make repl` to set up a testing repl of the lam interpreter.
you can also run `make` to start a lua repl
with all of lam's modules preloaded,
or `make test` to run the (very incomplete) test suite.

## license

lam is licensed under a 3-clause bsd license.
see COPYING for details.

## contribute

[email me][] or ping me somewhere

[email me]: mailto:acdw@acdw.net

## references

- [Lua 5.1 reference](https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html)
- [Luajit](https://luajit.org/)
- [R5RS](https://conservatory.scheme.org/schemers/Documents/Standards/R5RS/HTML/)
- [R7RS](https://standards.scheme.org/corrected-r7rs/r7rs.html)

## thanks

thanks to peter norvig's [series on lisp interpreters][norvig]
and to m455
and to my friends
and the #shittylisp channel on tilde.town irc

[norvig]: https://norvig.com/lispy.html