Interpreter and library.
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109cdda | 2022-10-18 09:51:12 | ![]() |
simpler Readline support would be nice. |
ec5036b | 2022-10-16 12:04:27 | ![]() |
This and that. |
74f936e | 2022-10-16 03:05:17 | ![]() |
Cleanup and refactoring. Bug when subtracting identical ... |
062b01d | 2022-10-16 01:52:58 | ![]() |
That seems to work: addition and subtraction. |
c130026 | 2022-10-15 13:01:18 | ![]() |
Mostly done with addition and subtraction. |
0b4b79f | 2022-10-15 12:36:50 | ![]() |
Not quite as smooth as I'd hoped. |
6ade65e | 2022-10-15 09:52:31 | ![]() |
Subtraction seems to work now. |
9ba9d05 | 2022-10-14 15:10:41 | ![]() |
Progress. |
8bedb77 | 2022-10-12 03:37:38 | ![]() |
Adding like-sign bigints in Joy. |
e7f4a02 | 2022-10-11 14:28:50 | ![]() |
Misc stuff. |
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simpler | 109cdda | 2022-10-18 09:51:12 | ![]() |
Readline support would be n... |
master | a2cf184 | 2022-09-12 01:33:50 | ![]() |
minor cleanup |
Thun A Dialect of Joy. v0.4.2 Joy is a programming language created by Manfred von Thun that is easy to use and understand and has many other nice properties. This project implements interpreters for a dialect that attempts to stay very close to the spirit of Joy but does not precisely match the behaviour of the original version written in C. The best source (no pun intended) for learning about Joy is the information made available at the website of La Trobe University (see the references section below for the URL) which contains source code for the original C interpreter, Joy language source code for various functions, and a great deal of fascinating material mostly written by Von Thun on Joy and its deeper facets as well as how to program in it and several interesting aspects. It's quite a treasure trove. Directory structure Thun |-- LICENSE - GPLv3 |-- README - this file | |-- archive | |-- Joy-Programming.zip | `-- README | |-- docs | |-- notebooks - Jupyter Notebooks and supporting modules | |-- reference - Docs for each function. | |-- sphinx_docs - Generate https://joypy.osdn.io/ site. | `-- README - Table of Contents | `-- implementations |-- Nim - interpreter |-- Prolog - interpreter | type inference | work-in-progress compiler |-- Python - interpreter |-- Rust - work-in-progress interpreter `-- defs.txt - common Joy definitions for all interpreters Documentation Jupyter Notebooks The docs/notebooks dir contains Jupyter notebooks, ... TODO Sphinx Docs Some of the documentation is in the form of ReST files in docs/sphinx_docs dir. Building the Docs Building the documentation is a little tricky at the moment. It involves a makefile that uses nbconvert to generate ReST files from some of the notebooks, copies those to the sphinx source dir, then builds the HTML output using sphinx. Get the dependencies for (re)building the docs: pip install Thun[build-docs] make docs Basics of Joy Joy is stack-based. There is a main stack that holds data items: integers, floats, strings, functions, and sequences or quotes which hold data items themselves. 23 1.8 'a string' "another" dup [21 18 /] [1 [2 [3]]] A Joy expression is just a sequence (a.k.a. "list") of items. Sequences intended as programs are called "quoted programs". Evaluation proceeds by iterating through the terms in the expression, putting all literals onto the main stack and executing functions as they are encountered. Functions receive the current stack and return the next stack. Literals and Simple Functions joy? 1 2 3 . 1 2 3 1 . 2 3 1 2 . 3 1 2 3 . 1 2 3 <-top joy? + + 1 2 3 . + + 1 5 . + 6 . 6 <-top joy? 7 * 6 . 7 * 6 7 . * 42 . 42 <-top joy? Combinators The main loop is very simple as most of the action happens through what are called "combinators": functions which accept quoted programs on the stack and run them in various ways. These combinators factor specific patterns that provide the effect of control-flow in other languages (such as ifte which is like if..then..else..) Combinators receive the current expession in addition to the stack and return the next expression. They work by changing the pending expression the interpreter is about to execute. The combinators could work by making recursive calls to the interpreter and all intermediate state would be held in the call stack of the implementation language, in this joy implementation they work instead by changing the pending expression and intermediate state is put there. joy? 23 [0 >] [dup --] while ... -> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 TODO: §.4.4 Definitions and More Elaborate Functions §.4.5 Programming and Metaprogramming §.4.6 Refactoring §.6 References & Further Reading Wikipedia entry for Joy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_%28programming_language%29 Homepage at La Trobe University: http://www.latrobe.edu.au/humanities/research/research-projects/past-projects/joy-programming-language -------------------------------------------------- Misc... Stack based - literals (as functions) - functions - combinators - Refactoring and making new definitions - traces and comparing performance - metaprogramming as programming, even the lowly integer range function can be expressed in two phases: building a specialized program and then executing it with a combinator - ?Partial evaluation? - ?memoized dynamic dependency graphs? - algebra -------------------------------------------------- Copyright © 2014-2022 Simon Forman This file is part of Thun Thun is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Thun is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Thun. If not see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.