I like systems that are self contained. No unnecessary dependencies.
I woke up today and decided that lispdown needs an implementation. After all, the rules are simple; should be a shell script, right?
True; but I couldn't help thinking: shouldn't I write lispdown in Lisp? Whoever needs it (lispdownville: pop 1) obviously will have lisp - and that's all they'll need. Sure they most probably will have bash, but why use it at all?
This is the same kind of thought process that led me to build cuke4jas. I found joy in the fact that the application being built and the tools being used to build it are both from the same base platform/language.
I woke up today and decided that lispdown needs an implementation. After all, the rules are simple; should be a shell script, right?
True; but I couldn't help thinking: shouldn't I write lispdown in Lisp? Whoever needs it (lispdownville: pop 1) obviously will have lisp - and that's all they'll need. Sure they most probably will have bash, but why use it at all?
This is the same kind of thought process that led me to build cuke4jas. I found joy in the fact that the application being built and the tools being used to build it are both from the same base platform/language.
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