This project is an incomplete work-in-progress.

• Much of the documentation is more aspirational than factual.
• There are tons of rough edges and many things missing from both the design and implementation.
• The code is aimed way more at ease-of-understanding and ease-of-modification than efficiency. Generated parser performance is particularly embarrassing.
• Nearly everything is subject to change.

This is the the Samizdat programming language, or "Sam" if you want to be terse.

Samizdat is a high-level programming language somewhere down the family lineage from all of ALGOL, Lisp, and Smalltalk. It is intended to be an easy and compelling language to use for text processing, free-form data structure manipulation, and general higher-level systems application programming.

As a fundamental part of its philosophy, Samizdat eschews hidden state and randomness, aiming for programs to be fully deterministic unless they explicitly rely on external state (such as a filesystem or network link). It also attempts to make immutable values the most attractive first choice for data representation. This all makes Samizdat a "functional" language of sorts, in the "Scheme camp" more than the "Haskell camp."

Find lots of documentation in the doc/ directory, including notably:

• a brief enumeration of design highlights.
• an overview of the main components of the system.
• a brief development guide.
• a manifesto and a handful of shout-outs that may help understand where the system is coming from (both literally and figuratively).

## Get all set up.
$ git clone git@github.com:danfuzz/samizdat.git
$ cd samizdat
$ . env.sh

## Build samex-naif (the basic runtime).
$ blur --in-dir=samex-naif

## Build samex-tot (the somewhat better runtime), which takes much longer.
$ blur --in-dir=samex-tot

## Once a runtime is built, run a script.
$ samex path/to/script.sam

## Build everything from scratch, and run all tests.
$ ./demo/run-all --runtime=tot --compiler=simple --clean-build

note("Hello, World!")

See AUTHORS.md.

See CHANGELOG.md.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

See LICENSE.md.

Copyright 2013-2014 the Samizdat Authors (Dan Bornstein et alia).
Licensed AS IS and WITHOUT WARRANTY under the Apache License,
Version 2.0. Details: <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>