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GwenNelson/BearLang

lisp for bears
Source code at GitHub null
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BearLang

Section titled “BearLang”

BearLang is a lispy-like language (ok, it’s a lisp essentially) written by me to match my own mental model of coding better. At the same time, it’s a heavy work in progress so expect bugs.

Why bears?

Section titled “Why bears?”

BOW!!!!

Building + running it

Section titled “Building + running it”

Build and install the dependencies under vendor/ first (running build.sh as root will do this for you automatically).

Next do this:

 mkdir build
 cd build
 cmake ..
 make
 ./bli ../examples/euler/problem01.bl

The REPL is named bli (for BearLang Interpreter), a compiler is currently under development.

Documentation on the language can be accessed by running the documentation browser webapp in docs/docs.bl

Basic features

Section titled “Basic features”
  • Lispy primitives (list operations, lambdas etc)
  • Nested functions
  • Tail call optimisation
  • Fast flex-based parsing
  • Boehms GC