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Wednesday October 27, 2004
02:19 PM
My first Acme module
To write an Acme module is something very important for a CPAN contributor. We really want to write something for the Acme namespace, but we want it to be fun, interesting.
And, Acme::Lisp seems to meet these requirements. It is fun, it can be interesting. But it is just a kind of prototype.
What it does? It takes Lisp code written as array references and evaluates it. Do you want a sample? here it goes:
use Acme::Lisp;
$code = [qw(+ 2 4 6 8)];
print eval_lisp($code);
Run this and get... 20. Wonderful, huh?
do, after all. The fact that it takes a little hard work from the
programmer to make the computer do hard work should not be a
consideration when the payoff is big.
--Larry Wall
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