The Monkey Programming Language
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The Monkey Programming Language
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#2Bit of bait-and-switch here: thought I was learning about a new programming language when it's more a pitch for books about making programming languages. Creative advertising on the part of the author though!
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#3Bit of bait-and-switch here: thought I was learning about a new programming language when it's more a pitch for books about making programming languages. Creative advertising on the part of the author though!
A little bit = but personally happy to see a website for the language - there are a lot of implementations out there now ,so its good to have a source point.
If you have not read the books they are a really good practical introductions to building interpreters and compilers.
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#4currently working my way through this book, and implementing it in C++ - very good book! I'm really enjoying it.
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#5I was looking for this and didn't realize it. I'm designing a fantasy console and wanted to include a modern-syntax, small, interpreted language that has many independent implementations - a new BASIC or Pascal. Lua comes close to this but attention is really centered around the PUC-Rio and LuaJIT implementations and not on being easily reimplemented, and every "classic" option one might think of(including Lisps and Forths) falls a bit outside today's mainstream.
I may be getting the book soon...
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#6Thorsten Ball very recently gave an interview on Software Engineering Radio [1] where he discusses the books and the language and his thinking on each.
[1] https://www.se-radio.net/2019/05/365-thorsten-ball-on-buildi...
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#7This is another language whose syntax is similar to Rust's. I wonder why the author chose it, in spite of its Go heritage.
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#8I was looking for this and didn't realize it. I'm designing a fantasy console and wanted to include a modern-syntax, small, interpreted language that has many independent implementations - a new BASIC or Pascal. Lua comes close to this but attention is really centered around the PUC-Rio and LuaJIT implementations and not on being easily reimplemented, and every "classic" option one might think of(including Lisps and…
I would argue for a Lisp. If you’re asking the user to use a language they’re not familiar with, it might as well be one that will expand their horizons, despite the potentially offputting syntax. It would be really cool if you added a key that switched from s-expressions to Sweet expressions[0] (and vice-versa). Forth is painful to use for anything more than a toy and no matter what language you choose it would be awesome to see a live-updating (graphical?) REPL.
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#9I was looking for this and didn't realize it. I'm designing a fantasy console and wanted to include a modern-syntax, small, interpreted language that has many independent implementations - a new BASIC or Pascal. Lua comes close to this but attention is really centered around the PUC-Rio and LuaJIT implementations and not on being easily reimplemented, and every "classic" option one might think of(including Lisps and…
Also consider looking at SOM - nine implementations http://som-st.github.io.
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#10This is another language whose syntax is similar to Rust's. I wonder why the author chose it, in spite of its Go heritage.
Also yet another language called 'Monkey'.
There's already Monkey C used to develop for Garmin devices, and the Monkey/MonkeyX/Monkey2 family by Mark Sibly (of Amiga Blitz Basic fame).