I created a general-purpose, high-level programming language called bagel. bagel is a lightweight yet extensible Lisp-like
scripting language written in and easily integrated with Java. It's called bagel because it goes so well with Java.
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bagel started out as a faithful Common Lisp implementation. I decided at some point though that this was actaully a great opportunity to
incorporate some of the great features of Lisp into a more modern language. So while bagel owes everything to Lisp, it barrows a bit from
Java and the internet era as well. The symbiotic relationship between bagel and Java has evolved as well. bagel is written in Java. You create an instance of the class
Interpreter in your Java application and load and run bagel code within that interpreter. You can easily and seamlessly call
Java from bagel and bagel from Java. Generally speaking I find it more natural to express the high-level business logic for my application
in bagel and use Java for the low-level general-purpose functions.