Lila: A Lil Interpreter in Posix Awk

https://beyondloom.com/blog/lila.html

by RodgerTheGreat • 2 years ago

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DerekL2• 2 years ago

Title has a mistake: it should be “POSIX AWK”, in all caps.

dang• 2 years ago

We don't do that for household names (e.g. NVIDIA) - it's easier on the eyes not to.

DerekL2• 2 years ago

Okay.

smartmic• 2 years ago

Not mentioned in the article, but good to know: Lil is the scripting language of Decker, which itself is a fantastic reincarnation of Hypercard with 1-bit graphics.

https://www.beyondloom.com/decker/index.html

imglorp• 2 years ago

It looks like there's another language also called Lil, for "native apps and games".

http://lil-language.com

msephton• 2 years ago

Lol

RodgerTheGreat2• 2 years ago

Fun fact: While Decker's UI is mostly black-and-white, it represents graphics in an 8-bit paletted fashion, with patterns as "logical colors"; this is very convenient for flood-fills, scaling, and other drawing operations. There is also a user-facing 16-color palette which can be accessed with drawing tools via the "Style -> Color" menu item.

anthk• 2 years ago

AWK is frequently regarded as a domain-specific language akin to sed

Oh, well, I think a bit more than that:

https://hoi.st/posts/2024-01-22-lets-play-some-cards-in-awk....

http://git.vgx.fr/gem.awk/

Gem client in AWK, with just openssl as a dependency, as even GAWK can just do plain connections.

https://git.sr.ht/~akarle/gc/tree/main/item/gc

This does gopher, and you can replace the netcat code on GAWK with connections, and the usage on writting against the socket would be pretty much the same but using AWKś printf instead of echo:

tmaly• 2 years ago

My understanding of Lil is that is it written in Lua.

I wonder if Lil could run in the implementation of Lua that Roblox offers?

RodgerTheGreat2• 2 years ago

Lil is not written in Lua; its design is influenced by Lua. Including Lila, there are now Lil implementations written in C, JavaScript, and Awk.

Lila: A Lil Interpreter in Posix Awk

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