Writing a Lisp Interpreter in Go

Steve Yegge said "If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work."

Understanding how programming language work will make you a better programmer and gain a better understanding of Go itself.

We'll implement a small lisp like language and discuss language design & implementation issues and how they are found in Go.

• Lexing & Parsing
• Variable scope & closures
• Types
• Evaluating code
• ...

Oh, and it's fun ...