On: Not Lisp again (2009)

[3pt14159]

That is cool, but it's pretty similar in Ruby.

    def repl
      loop { puts( eval gets ) }
    end

I guess I just prefer Ruby for general legibility. The same type of bracket everywhere makes pairing them mentally an error-prone chore. At least for yours truly.

[reikonomusha → 3pt14159]

This is actually a very different piece of code.

puts and gets are string functions. read and print are code deserializers and serializers.

eval is a function that takes a data structure representing code (as deserialized by read) and computes its value as a data structure, and serializes it.

While you might get the same effect as a user, the mechanics and metacircularity are lost.

[db48x → reikonomusha]

plus, it's a gepl, not a repl.