Aocla (Advent of Code inspired Language) is a toy stack-based programming language made by antirez.
Well, it is not just another RIIR, but rather rewrite to higher level language for better expandability.
I love the idea of small languages, the idea of making anything you want with just some really basic tools the language gives you.
C is a quite simple language, but its simplicity is sometimes really annoying.
When you have to use malloc along with free and keep track of memory allocations... It isn't the best tool for daily programming usage.
Aocla is a quite simple language. Current implementation has 6 datatypes:
- List:
[1 2 3 "foo"] - Tuple:
(x y z) - Symbol:
mysymbol,=or$x - Integer:
500 - Boolean:
#tor#f - String:
"Hello, World!\n"
Example of using while and if for making some basic algorithms like finding value in list:
[(a n)
0 #f (i found)
[$found not $i $a len < and] [
[$n $a $i @ =] [
#t (found)
] [
$i 1 + (i)
] ifelse
] while
$i
] 'find proc
[1 2 3 1234 5 6 7 1000] (a)
$a 1234 find println
$a 1000 find println
Other examples can be found in examples folder
Most parts of the original language was implemented but not everything:
- Basic datatypes
- Every original procedure (likely won't happen)
- Commentaries (they were working, but recently i rewrote whole parser with nom library and broke them)
What i would like to add:
- Better-looking REPL (with history and syntax highlighting)
- Procedures for dealing with lists (
<- (prepend),-> (append),:: (cons),@ (get)) - Procedures for dealing with strings