Pail | Cat's Eye Technologies

Pail is a programming language based on pairs; just as Lisp stands for LISt Processing, Pail stands for PAIr Language. Its original working title was "Bizaaro[sic]-Pixley", as it attempts to resemble Pixley while turning several concepts on their heads: use pairs instead of lists, quote by default instead of eval by default, and allow not just values but also names of bindings to be expressed.

Sample Program

**[*let [
     [cadrg *[#fst ##*[#snd #g]]]
     **[*let [
          [g [x [y z]]]
          ***cadrg
       ]]
  ]]

Computational Class

believed Turing-complete

Programming Paradigms

Functional

Documentation

Implementations

Pail.lhs, an interpreter in Haskell

To run this implementation, you need:
- to build it first, for which you will need:
  - an implementation of Parsec
- an implementation of Haskell (we suggest ghc)

Test Requirements

an implementation of Falderal (we suggest py-falderal)

Download

Download latest release (1.0-2011.1214)

Development

Github: catseye/Pail

Bitbucket: catseye/pail

Issue tracker: on github

Previous Releases

Influences

Pixley