







Oct 2019



Bel is a spec for a new dialect of Lisp, written in itself. This should sound familiar to people who know about Lisp's origins, because it's the way Lisp began .



It consists of two text files meant to be read in parallel: a guide to the Bel language , and the Bel source .



For those who just want to see some code examples, there's a file of those . But of course the Bel source is also a code example, since it's written in itself.



Considering the rate at which I was discovering bugs before publishing Bel, there are bound to be more remaining. So this first version is version C, after Cunningham's Law.







