Lisp Interpreter in JavaScript

This is a test page for my implementation of Lisp in JavaScript. It's still a work in progress, but most primitives are in place. See the bottom of the page for options.

I've gone ahead and made the interpreter case-sensitive. I know this is sacrilege and will make me unpopular, but such is the business of design trade-offs. On the upside, I now have dotimes and dolist working.

Before I add too many more features (like, &key, &optional, and &rest for functions) I'm going to do some refactoring. Portions of the code have really gotten out of hand.

Parentheses are Balanced

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