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Egison – Pattern-matching-oriented Programming Language

by hamidr on 7/5/14, 6:54 PM with 33 comments

• by egi on 7/5/14, 10:00 PM

  The creator of the language here, ask me anything. Please check my paper recently I put on arXiv.org. http://arxiv.org/abs/1407.0729

• by anigbrowl on 7/5/14, 11:07 PM

  Love the 'cheat sheet' accessible from the landing page. Great way to give a feeling of what it's like in under a minute.

• by mamcx on 7/6/14, 3:57 AM

  Because lispy syntax is alien to me, how is this different to the pattern matching of other languages (I barely know the ones about Haskell, and now swift)?

  This interest me because I'm dreaming about build a language and think pattern matching is very cool and look like can replace if & case.

• by stox on 7/6/14, 6:16 AM

  Could this finally be a real replacement for Snobol?

• by innguest on 7/5/14, 11:33 PM

  Does Egison implement the Pattern Calculus?

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_calculus

• by mc_hammer on 7/6/14, 12:31 AM

  is it compilable? is there a windowing library? roughly what is the speed comparable to? the examples look very nice, gj