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I'll be the one to tell it : it's a bit weird for the README of a programming language to have an esoteric quote, pages of prose, links to five research papers

I'll be the one to tell it : it's a bit weird for the README of a programming language to have an esoteric quote, pages of prose, links to five research papers / theory books, a flame war on build system, a political manifesto and grand visions about the future of programming, but not a single line of, ahem, the programming language in question ? (I hope I'm not missing sarcasm.) Or is it to weed out the people who don't know about beta-reductions ? Am I suddenly in blub world for simply wanting a code example ? Or is there already a tutorial and the link just happens to be missing ?

jcburnham 5y ago
Sure, thanks for the feedback. Our standard library is here: https://github.com/yatima-inc/introit https://github.com/yatima-inc/introit, I'll edit the README to make that more prominent As far as docs and tutorials, we weren't planning on doing a public release for another month or two, so there isn't anything yet. The language is still pre-alpha, so our focus has been on getting the core working correctly before smoothing the on-ramp. Also, tbh, I'm not 100% settled on what the user-facing syntax should be. Right now we have a simple lisp-like core syntax, but I'm thinking about implementing something like Racket's #lang declaration to allow the user to define and import frontends to that core syntax.
- asimjalis 5y ago
  The link is helpful. But just to get a feel for the language it would be nice to have a simple “Hello world” example in the main yatima README.
  - jcburnham 5y ago
    That makes sense, I'll definitely add a snippet like that to the README once our IO system is finished so you can do a proper side-effecting print of "Hello World" rather than just returning the pure string.
_hpb 5y ago
You must do a Straussian reading of ALL REAMDEs.

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I'll be the one to tell it : it's a bit weird for the README of a programming language to have an esoteric quote, pages of prose, links to five research papers

by phtrivier 5y ago

jcburnham 5y ago
Sure, thanks for the feedback. Our standard library is here: https://github.com/yatima-inc/introit https://github.com/yatima-inc/introit, I'll edit the README to make that more prominent As far as docs and tutorials, we weren't planning on doing a public release for another month or two, so there isn't anything yet. The language is still pre-alpha, so our focus has been on getting the core working correctly before smoothing the on-ramp. Also, tbh, I'm not 100% settled on what the user-facing syntax should be. Right now we have a simple lisp-like core syntax, but I'm thinking about implementing something like Racket's #lang declaration to allow the user to define and import frontends to that core syntax.
- asimjalis 5y ago
  The link is helpful. But just to get a feel for the language it would be nice to have a simple “Hello world” example in the main yatima README.
  - jcburnham 5y ago
    That makes sense, I'll definitely add a snippet like that to the README once our IO system is finished so you can do a proper side-effecting print of "Hello World" rather than just returning the pure string.
_hpb 5y ago
You must do a Straussian reading of ALL REAMDEs.