darius/awklisp
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A Lisp interpreter written in Awk.
14 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 10 comments · first 2009-03-10 · latest 2026-02-19
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…The author may like https://skarnet.org/software/execline/ (can be containerized the same way?), https://github.com/darius/awklisp , and https://github.com/libriscv/libriscv + https://github.com/libriscv/libloong .
comment by networked · 2026-02-19 · in Show HN: A Lisp where each function call runs a Docker container -
…just the price of admission to that intro, paid along the way. I wrote plenty of Awk in the 90s -- https://github.com/darius/awklisp isn't very representative but it was fun.
comment by abecedarius · 2017-10-25 · in Learn to use Awk with hundreds of examples -
…think about all the escaping rules and such. I did write some programs in Awk in the 90s (notably https://github.com/darius/awklisp ), so I'd go with that. Maybe someone who's bent bash to their will could speak up here? AFAIK they're both…
comment by abecedarius · 2017-01-22 · in The Awk Programming Language (1988) [pdf] -
I've always loved the license for awklisp – see the bottom half of the README: https://github.com/darius/awklisp
comment by michaelsbradley · 2015-09-16 · in Lisp implementation in sed -
https://github.com/darius/awklisp includes a Perl port contributed by someone who wished to remain anonymous.
comment by abecedarius · 2014-07-24 · in Lisp in QBASIC -
Ahahah. Awesome. There is even an 'awk' version: https://github.com/darius/awklisp
comment by mseri · 2014-06-27 · in Lisp implementation in sed -
…theme, here's awklisp, a project that apparently helped/inspired Dipert to write Gherkin: https://github.com/darius/awklisp
comment by Morgawr · 2014-01-13 · in A Lisp interpeter in a thousand lines of Bash -
On a vaguely related note, Darius Bacon's Lisp-in-awk has always brought a smile to my face: https://github.com/darius/awklisp/blob/master/awklisp
comment by yoklov · 2013-05-17 · in Why Awk for AI? (1997) -
Clearly, AWK is the future winner, since it has implemented Lisp[1][2]! ---- [1] https://github.com/darius/awklisp [2] http://awk.info/?AwkLisp
comment by merlincorey · 2011-11-05 · in Why Lisp Will Never Win (2003) -
http://github.com/darius/awklisp does it the usual way. It's an order of magnitude bigger than the OP, and not focused on How To Do Macros, but on the plus side, it is just a toy.
comment by abecedarius · 2010-09-02 · in 30 minutes Lisp in Ruby (direct link)