L Sharp. Lisp Scripting for .NET

From: Rob Blackwell (rob.blackwell_at_lsharp.org)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 10:21:19 -0000

L Sharp version 1.0 has been released - www.lsharp.org

L Sharp .NET is a powerful lisp-based scripting language and interpreter for
.NET. It uses a Lisp dialect similar to Paul Graham's Arc but tightly
integrates with the Microsoft .NET Framework which provides a rich set of
libraries.

It's working pretty well, but the language and tools are still subject to
change. There is an online reference manual, getting started guide as well
as several examples. It's already good enough to run some sysadmin scripts
at Active Web Solutions, including a site checker and some database mangling
scripts.

I'm particularly interested in Paul Graham's work on Arc,
http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html and L Sharp draws upon many of those
ideas.

Basically I wanted a good scripting engine on the Microsoft platform and a
way of interactively and incrementally experimenting with the .NET framework
in the Lisp tradition.

The L Sharp core DLL is distributed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, making
it suitable for use as a scripting engine for .NET applications (It can be
incorporated into your C Sharp or VB.Net application with just a few lines
of code and can script your domain specific classes automatically through
reflection).

L Sharp may be of particular interest if you are a Lisp hacker working with
the Microsoft technologies.

For more information please visit www.lsharp.org

L Sharp isn't perfect, but I want to maintain and improve it. I'm
particularly interested in any constructive feedback and ideas
[feedback@lsharp.org] that you may have. Please report bugs to
[bugs@lsharp.org]

Regards

Rob Blackwell

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