Lisp in QBASIC

To paraphrase Jurassic Park: "lisp finds a way"

That&#x27;s nuthin: here&#x27;s lisp in Fortran:<p><a href="https://github.com/blakemcbride/LISPF4" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;blakemcbride&#x2F;LISPF4</a>

Two more esoteric Lisp interpreters:<p>Lisp in BrainFuck:<p><a href="http://code.google.com/p/zozotez/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;zozotez&#x2F;</a><p>Lisp in Befunge:<p><a href="https://github.com/shinh/beflisp" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shinh&#x2F;beflisp</a>

While we are all posting these types of things, here is a Scheme I did in Prolog: <a href="https://github.com/FigBug/scheme" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;FigBug&#x2F;scheme</a>

I seem to recall more than a few Lisp interpreters in BASIC.<p>I&#x27;m almost certain that BYTE or Dr. Dobbs had one. I&#x27;m also pretty sure that one of the TRS-80 rags had one. I can&#x27;t seem to find them now, however.<p>Sadly, I&#x27;m like everybody else nowadays. If it isn&#x27;t on Google, it doesn&#x27;t exist.

Finding a language that doesn&#x27;t have a Lisp and writing a Lisp for it is probably the most predictable way to get on Hacker News. What&#x27;s left?

&quot;Why does this exist? I wanted to write an interpreter and was stuck on a Windows XP laptop without Internet&quot;<p>We have all had one of those days... :)

I started programming in the 7th grade with QBASIC. This made me nostalgic. Thanks for sharing. Nice seeing WEND after a long time.

I haven&#x27;t inspected it in detail, but it goes to show again how little you need to implement something LISP-y. My first LISP was built in C, which feels almost banal in comparison (it was longer, too).

Come on, someone do Lisp in Piet.