Femtolisp was started by Jeff Bezanson as a GitHub side project. According to him, the aim was to write the fastest lisp interpreter that could be written in under 1,000 lines of C code. This was the initial idea, which later grew bigger and gained attention. Femtolisp is simple and built using scheme.
To open up the lisp interpreter, you just need to type in julia --lisp:
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