Show HN: JedLang, my first attempt at a language

by jhedwards • 11 years ago

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thomasfoster96• 11 years ago

+1 for implementing a Lisp in JavaScript that compiles to C.

Just a heads up, the main script in your package.json points to a file that doesn't exist.

marssaxman• 11 years ago

Cool. Well done.

mikkom2• 11 years ago

Why the obfuscated names? I mean

There is reduce (REDC), array (ARRY), filter (FLTR) and each (EACH).

It would be much cleaner to just use full names (array instead of ARRY)

madaxe_again• 11 years ago

I dare say "it is intended to be very terse" answers that.

Cleaner, yes, but more keystrokes!

mikkom2• 11 years ago

They are all uppercase so if you calculate that shift on every keystroke it's actually more :-) Or at least the same with array for example.

EACH has more keystrokes than each.

Dewie• 11 years ago

It wouldn't be properly UNIX-like without randomly omitting vowels.

hultner• 11 years ago

Those precious bytes of disk space though

bcg1• 11 years ago

Nice! First, but hopefully not last. Good hack!

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