Mona-lisp

An elegant, design-hackable and data-hackable lisp language.

Ideas

within-db-feature (data-hackable)

• Database language would be included into lisp grammer tree as a part of monalisp.
• Any searchable data could be treated as a list-based db object.
• The basic db operations could be implemented via lisp macros or lisp functions.
• The users can change the basic interface of db operations and extend them, they also can change the grammer of db feature.

easy-for-porting-parser

• based on standard libc, depentdent from os api.

minimal-footprint-parser

• monalisp parser can be easily integrated into embedded system without a file subsystem. Those embedded systems need the database feature, but due to the limited footprint of hardware always without a text-based file subsystem.

anything-is-text (design-hackable)

• If anything could be implemented as text, it means the language should be as more elegant as possible for designing.

within-minimal-english-text-filesystem (data-hackable)

easy-for-creating-new-parser

within-minimal-elegant-useful-editor

based-on-common-lisp

for good hackers and good designers

everything-is-object, everything-is-data, everything-is-db (design-and-data-hackable)

easy-for-architecture-design

easy-for-system-design

easy-for-layout-design

for-minimalism

for-elegant-products

Design

overview

reflecting

Releases

mona-lisp v1.0

I recommend you to use Emacs editor for reading and coding. :-)

I would implement more features and release a stable version in the future, and God know that schedule. :-)

If you have the source codes of another baby lisp, please share it with me, thanks.

And if you want to join mona-lisp community and hack together, please let me know.

Email: hk.mars@aol.com