I've always wanted to write a programming language and lately I've been in love with Lisp so I started writing a Lisp interpreter in Python. I know there are a few resources and write ups on how to do this but I decided to give it a go without looking at them. I'm trying to see if I can figure out these concepts on my own from first principles.

As of today I've got the lexer, parser, and math functions working. I decided to call the language Hith because the interpreter is written in Python and hith sounds like a snake hissing with a lisp. You can find the repo here.

An example of how the language works:

>>> (+ 1 2)
3

>>> (- 10 3)
7

>>> (* 4 5)
20

>>> (/ 20 4)
5.0

>>> (+ 1 (+ 2 3))
6