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The author, Dr. Mark Tarver, is perhaps best known for the essay The Bipolar Lisp Programmer: https://marktarver.com/bipolar.html https://marktarver.com/bipolar
by samatman 3y ago
The author, Dr. Mark Tarver, is perhaps best known for the essay The Bipolar Lisp Programmer: https://marktarver.com/bipolar.html https://marktarver.com/bipolar.html
If you want to jump straight into what makes Shen interesting, read Part 10 of the manual, starting with recursive types: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Recursive.html https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Recursive.html
- nextos 3y agoHe has also published The Book of Shen, which is really interesting. Sadly, the lack of extensive free documentation is probably harming Shen's popularity.
- fuzzythinker 3y agoAgree, freely available extensive documentation is a must. The link to Book of Shen is for UK. To find it elsewhere, search for the isbn, eg. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1915012112 https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1915012112 Edit: The book is available online, but is scanned in low res blurry format, very not readable.
- ngcc_hk 3y agoNot sure it is. It it sort of hypertext ??? https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Introduction.html https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Introduction.html
- cylinder714 3y agoThat is the spec. The Book of Shen: https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos.html https://shenlanguage.org/TBoS/tbos.html