rust-build-your-own-lisp-code

Conventions

• The book uses the C99 standard. This means we compile using the -std=c99 parameter.
• We print all warnings, to avoid getting into bad practices. This means we compile using the -Wall flag.
• When we compile, we specify an output file with a readable name using the -o parameter.
• The names of C code files are all lower case letters and a few special symbols (possibly only the underscore) to increase readability.
• The C code files have the file ending .c.
• The output files of compilations of C code files do not have a file ending.

Compilation

Example commands

• For GNU compiler collection:

  gcc -std=c99 -Wall hello_world.c -o hello_world

• With warning for unused parameters:

  gcc -std=c99 -Wall -Wunused-parameter hello_world.c -o hello_world
  

Hints

• Valgrind might help finding memory leaks.

Progess in the book

• on page 19 out of 206 (end of learning material in the book).

Ideas

• Maybe I can do the whole book in Rust or/and Guile? In Guile it would probably be easier to get the ideas right, as it probably already has many of the semantics of the Lisp I am writing. In Rust I would have static type checking and loads of type inference. Maybe Rust would prevent many kinds of mistakes, that I would make in C.