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# Ginger
A lisp-like language built on the go programming language. The ideas are still a
work-in-progress, and this repo is where I'm jotting down my notes:
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# Language manifesto
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* Anything written in go should be writeable in ginger in as many lines or
fewer.
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* When deciding whether to be more go-like or more like an existing lisp
language, err on being go-like.
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* The fewer built-in functions, the better. The standard library should be
easily discoverable and always importable so helper functions can be made
available.
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* When choosing between adding a syntax rule or a datatype and not adding a
feature, err on not adding the feature.
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* It is not a goal to make ginger code be usable from go code.
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* Naming should use words instead of symbols, except when those symbols are
existing go operators.
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* Overloading function should be used as little as possible.