README.md

blaise

Slava Akhmechet's Lisp (implemented in Haskell) from 2006

Intro

This project is described in Slava's related post on the topic. There is also some related material discussing Slava's motivation for working on this project. Furthermore, the article has been compied over to the wiki in the hopes of preserving it.

Dependencies

You will need Haskell installed on your system. Download:

• http://www.haskell.org/platform/

Then install cabal-dev:

$ cabal install cabal-dev

You may need to add the cabel-dev bin directory to your $PATH.

Building

Get the source:

$ git clone https://github.com/haskell-lisp/blaise.git
$ cd blaise

Build, install in, and run from a local dev env:

$ cabal-dev install
$ ./cabal-dev/bin/blaise

At which point you're off and running!

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