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Arturo programming language and Stack-based VM in Nim

23 points by arturoLang 6y ago

arturoLang 6y ago
Simple, modern and portable interpreted programming language for efficient scripting
chessmaster66 6y ago
Interesting new language. I'll definite have a look. In what aspects does it differ from traditional Rebol (v2)?
- arturoLang 6y ago
  Well, the language is indeed inspired by Rebol - in the sense that it is block-based (where blocks are nothing but lists of words and symbols, without any initial meaning). However, it also combines many other concepts. Basically, think of it as a fusion between Haskell and Ruby with the (inexistent) syntax of Rebol. If you want to get a feel of it, just try it online @ http://arturo-lang.io/ http://arturo-lang.io/ or check one of the many working examples already there. :)
  - 9214 6y ago
    Blocks in Rebol are not a mere "stuff" delineated by square brackets. Rather, it's a heterogeneous container that can hold first-class values and represent both code and data (homoiconic property), thus serving as a base for the syntactically-rich data format. It also has a well-defined model [1] within the language, and, as such, can be freely operated upon at the run-time. On a grand scale of language design, blocks form a concrete-syntax tree that can be derived from (or converted to) both textual [2] and serialized binary [3] forms. Moreso, Rebol's syntax was in fact inspired by Logo. So, the relation between Arturo and Rebol seems to be very superficial; reminds me of Spry [4] that claims to be Rebol-like but is in fact an opinionated Smalltalk. [1]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html [2]: https://pointillistic.com/ren/ https://pointillistic.com/ren/ [3]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc [4]: http://sprylang.se/ http://sprylang.se/
    - arturoLang 6y ago
      Well, I didn't say it's a Rebol-derivative. I just said some part of the syntax (which by the way is much more close to Rebol/Red than you think) is inspired by Rebol. I wanted an easy-to-read format and homoiconicity and since there was one already, this was the way to go. Now, Arturo tries to offer much more (that's why I started the project in the first place anyway). I have many-many working examples in the /examples folder of the repo so that you can try it out if you want. All comments, suggestions and ideas are more than welcome! :)

23 points by arturoLang 6y ago

arturoLang 6y ago

Simple, modern and portable interpreted programming language for efficient scripting

chessmaster66 6y ago

Interesting new language. I'll definite have a look. In what aspects does it differ from traditional Rebol (v2)?

arturoLang 6y ago
Well, the language is indeed inspired by Rebol - in the sense that it is block-based (where blocks are nothing but lists of words and symbols, without any initial meaning). However, it also combines many other concepts. Basically, think of it as a fusion between Haskell and Ruby with the (inexistent) syntax of Rebol. If you want to get a feel of it, just try it online @ http://arturo-lang.io/ http://arturo-lang.io/ or check one of the many working examples already there. :)
- 9214 6y ago
  Blocks in Rebol are not a mere "stuff" delineated by square brackets. Rather, it's a heterogeneous container that can hold first-class values and represent both code and data (homoiconic property), thus serving as a base for the syntactically-rich data format. It also has a well-defined model [1] within the language, and, as such, can be freely operated upon at the run-time. On a grand scale of language design, blocks form a concrete-syntax tree that can be derived from (or converted to) both textual [2] and serialized binary [3] forms. Moreso, Rebol's syntax was in fact inspired by Logo. So, the relation between Arturo and Rebol seems to be very superficial; reminds me of Spry [4] that claims to be Rebol-like but is in fact an opinionated Smalltalk. [1]: http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html http://www.rebol.com/docs/core23/rebolcore-6.html [2]: https://pointillistic.com/ren/ https://pointillistic.com/ren/ [3]: https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc https://github.com/red/docs/blob/master/en/redbin.adoc [4]: http://sprylang.se/ http://sprylang.se/
  - arturoLang 6y ago
    Well, I didn't say it's a Rebol-derivative. I just said some part of the syntax (which by the way is much more close to Rebol/Red than you think) is inspired by Rebol. I wanted an easy-to-read format and homoiconicity and since there was one already, this was the way to go. Now, Arturo tries to offer much more (that's why I started the project in the first place anyway). I have many-many working examples in the /examples folder of the repo so that you can try it out if you want. All comments, suggestions and ideas are more than welcome! :)