PicoLisp - Programming language

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PicoLisp is a programming language created in 1988 by Alexander Burger.

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PicoLisp is an open source Lisp dialect. It runs on Linux and other POSIX-compliant systems.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language, lisp
There are at least 114 PicoLisp repos on GitHub
Early development of PicoLisp happened in https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp@software-lab.de
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 85 users using PicoLisp in 99 repos on GitHub
Explore PicoLisp snippets on Rosetta Code
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for PicoLisp
picolisp.com was registered in 2007
See also: (9 related languages) Lisp, Linux, S-expressions, Common Lisp, Emacs Lisp, Prolog, C, Assembly language, Java

Example from Linguist:

# 11dec13abu
# (c) Software Lab. Alexander Burger

(de permute (Lst)
   (ifn (cdr Lst)
      (cons Lst)
      (mapcan
         '((X)
            (mapcar
               '((Y) (cons X Y))
               (permute (delete X Lst)) ) )
         Lst ) ) )

(de subsets (N Lst)
   (cond
      ((=0 N) '(NIL))
      ((not Lst))
      (T
         (conc
            (mapcar
               '((X) (cons (car Lst) X))
               (subsets (dec N) (cdr Lst)) )
            (subsets N (cdr Lst)) ) ) ) )

(de shuffle (Lst)
   (by '(NIL (rand)) sort Lst) )

(de samples (Cnt Lst)
   (make
      (until (=0 Cnt)
         (when (>= Cnt (rand 1 (length Lst)))
            (link (car Lst))
            (dec 'Cnt) )
         (pop 'Lst) ) ) )


# Genetic Algorithm
(de gen ("Pop" "Cond" "Re" "Mu" "Se")
   (until ("Cond" "Pop")
      (for ("P" "Pop" "P" (cdr "P"))
         (set "P"
            (maxi "Se"  # Selection
               (make
                  (for ("P" "Pop" "P")
                     (rot "P" (rand 1 (length "P")))
                     (link  # Recombination + Mutation
                        ("Mu" ("Re" (pop '"P") (pop '"P"))) ) ) ) ) ) ) )
   (maxi "Se" "Pop") )


# Alpha-Beta tree search
(de game ("Flg" "Cnt" "Moves" "Move" "Cost")
   (let ("Alpha" '(1000000)  "Beta" -1000000)
      (recur ("Flg" "Cnt" "Alpha" "Beta")
         (let? "Lst" ("Moves" "Flg")
            (if (=0 (dec '"Cnt"))
               (loop
                  ("Move" (caar "Lst"))
                  (setq "*Val" (list ("Cost" "Flg") (car "Lst")))
                  ("Move" (cdar "Lst"))
                  (T (>= "Beta" (car "*Val"))
                     (cons "Beta" (car "Lst") (cdr "Alpha")) )
                  (when (> (car "Alpha") (car "*Val"))
                     (setq "Alpha" "*Val") )
                  (NIL (setq "Lst" (cdr "Lst")) "Alpha") )
               (setq "Lst"
                  (sort
                     (mapcar
                        '(("Mov")
                           (prog2
                              ("Move" (car "Mov"))
                              (cons ("Cost" "Flg") "Mov")
                              ("Move" (cdr "Mov")) ) )
                        "Lst" ) ) )
               (loop
                  ("Move" (cadar "Lst"))
                  (setq "*Val"
                     (if (recurse (not "Flg") "Cnt" (cons (- "Beta")) (- (car "Alpha")))
                        (cons (- (car @)) (cdar "Lst") (cdr @))
                        (list (caar "Lst") (cdar "Lst")) ) )
                  ("Move" (cddar "Lst"))
                  (T (>= "Beta" (car "*Val"))
                     (cons "Beta" (cdar "Lst") (cdr "Alpha")) )
                  (when (> (car "Alpha") (car "*Val"))
                     (setq "Alpha" "*Val") )
                  (NIL (setq "Lst" (cdr "Lst")) "Alpha") ) ) ) ) ) )


### Grids ###
(de grid (DX DY FX FY)
   (let Grid
      (make
         (for X DX
            (link
               (make
                  (for Y DY
                     (set
                        (link
                           (if (> DX 26)
                              (box)
                              (intern (pack (char (+ X 96)) Y)) ) )
                        (cons (cons) (cons)) ) ) ) ) ) )
      (let West (and FX (last Grid))
         (for (Lst Grid  Lst)
            (let
               (Col (pop 'Lst)
                  East (or (car Lst) (and FX (car Grid)))
                  South (and FY (last Col)) )
               (for (L Col  L)
                  (with (pop 'L)
                     (set (: 0 1) (pop 'West))  # west
                     (con (: 0 1) (pop 'East))  # east
                     (set (: 0 -1) South)       # south
                     (con (: 0 -1)              # north
                        (or (car L) (and FY (car Col))) )
                     (setq South This) ) )
               (setq West Col) ) ) )
      Grid ) )

(de west (This)
   (: 0 1 1) )

(de east (This)
   (: 0 1 -1) )

(de south (This)
   (: 0 -1 1) )

(de north (This)
   (: 0 -1 -1) )

(de disp ("Grid" "How" "Fun" "X" "Y" "DX" "DY")
   (setq "Grid"
      (if "X"
         (mapcar
            '((L) (flip (head "DY" (nth L "Y"))))
            (head "DX" (nth "Grid" "X")) )
         (mapcar reverse "Grid") ) )
   (let (N (+ (length (cdar "Grid")) (or "Y" 1))  Sp (length N))
      ("border" north)
      (while (caar "Grid")
         (prin " " (align Sp N) " "
            (and "How" (if (and (nT "How") (west (caar "Grid"))) " " '|)) )
         (for L "Grid"
            (prin
               ("Fun" (car L))
               (and "How" (if (and (nT "How") (east (car L))) " " '|)) ) )
         (prinl)
         ("border" south)
         (map pop "Grid")
         (dec 'N) )
      (unless (> (default "X" 1) 26)
         (space (inc Sp))
         (for @ "Grid"
            (prin " " (and "How" "  ") (char (+ 96 "X")))
            (T (> (inc '"X") 26)) )
         (prinl) ) ) )

(de "border" (Dir)
   (when "How"
      (space Sp)
      (prin "  +")
      (for L "Grid"
         (prin (if (and (nT "How") (Dir (car L))) "   +" "---+")) )
      (prinl) ) )

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X