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Daily Archives: October 12, 2015

LPL-3

12 Monday Oct 2015

Posted by Wyrd Smythe in Stories

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computer language, language design, Lisp, little programming language, LPL, programming language, syntax

I’ll pick up with the language I began describing last time in a future post. Right now I want to pick up the thread of Little Programming Languages (LPLs) and use several examples to illustrate what underlies a programming language. (And as it turns out, these are “little” only in a certain sense.)

This first example, LPL-3, is Lisp-like and, because of that, is fairly orthogonal. Even better, it’s probably actually usable, although — like Lisp — it doesn’t have the cleanest syntax (languages like Python have really spoiled me).

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