mini-iLisp is a very small flavour of iLisp with the intention of working out and establishing how to translate iLisp into a binary executable using LLVM.

The style of this project is more focused on the translation into binary rather than with scanning, parsing and translation into an intermediate representation as these are all well understood and more than enough has been written about those compilation phases.

Language Description

This section is a simple description of mini-iLisp to give the reader of basic understanding. It should be noted that this description is not fixed changing and flexing as I get further into building out mini-iLisp and wanting to understanding different translation scenarios.

Implementation Layout

The section describes the implementation and where to find the source code.

"hello world"

The "hello world" mini-iLisp is super simple:

(println "hello world")

The translation of this into a binary, although trivial, does need to answer a number of questions around the layout of the compiled code.