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 ## ...a purely symbolic gesture...
 
 This project began with an attempt to write the fastest lisp interpreter I could in under 1000 lines of C. It snowballed from there as I kept trying to see if I could add powerful features with minimal code. At the same time I assembled a library of some of my favorite C code (by myself and others) to use as a base for a standard library. This includes `ios`, a replacement for parts of C's stdio that adds more flexible features.