orangeduck/BuildYourOwnLisp

Learn C and build your own programming language in under 1000 lines of code!

Source code at GitHub http://www.buildyourownlisp.com/

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Build your own Lisp

http://buildyourownlisp.com

About

This is the HTML and website code for the book of the above title.

Corrections / Edits / Contributions Welcome

contact@theorangeduck.com

Book contents licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Source code licensed under BSD3

https://opensource.org/license/bsd-3-clause/

Running

You can’t just browse the raw HTML files of the site. The links wont work, and it wont have a proper header or footer. If you want to run this website locally, you should install Flask and run the website as follows.

pip install Flask cachelib
python lispy.py

You can specify port via $PORT.

env PORT=5000 python lispy.py

This will serve the site locally at http://127.0.0.1:5000/. You can browse it from there.