This program is an implementation of the Lispkit described in the book "FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING: Application and Implementation", by Peter Henderson, ISBN 0-13-331579-7.

If you have a C compiler and make, like gcc and gmake, you can build the program with:

make

If compilation is successful, you can test lispkit - this will attempt some of the examples from table 12.1 and 12.2 in the book.

make test

To compile a lispkit program, where [filename] is the name of a file containing lispkit source code:

./lispkit compiler.ascii [filename]

To compile one of the examples, examples/square.lisp:

make examples/square.o

You should see some output like:

( 3 ( 1 ( 0 . 0 ) 1 ( 0 . 0 ) 17 5 ) 4 21 )

Then run it, with no second argument lispkit will read the input from stdin. Type a number e.g. 9, press enter, then ctrl-d, and the result will be printed to stdout:

./lispkit examples/square.o 9 81