Paws.c

Paws is @elliottcable’s programming language. The design is over a year old, but has gone through many iterations and changes. There is no working implementation, though several separate codebases are underway.

This project is my reference implementation. It’s going to be absolutely non-performant at the outset; it is primarily intended to be an easy-to-peruse codebase that provides a clean API for embedding the interpreter into other projects (statically linked.)

If you’re interested in Paws, you should join the IRC channel. There’s no coherent documentation on the underlying paradigm online; we’ve tried several times to compile such, and had no luck. It’s quite difficult to explain without an example interpreter to point people to, even on a one-on-basis; nearly impossible to do so with no example implementation and in a generalized anybody-who-reads-this form. (Yes, we know this situation sucks!)

We’re always available in ##Paws on the Freenode IRC network (click here to immediately open a temporary IRC client.)

Spelunking

This distribution includes a file that describes many points of interest within the codebase, and should help you have an easier time exploring it.

If you’re the sort who learns best by reading code instead of docs, head over to the SPELUNKING file!

Compiling

Using the C99 function below, you can use the following (compatible with $CC set to either clang or gcc, right now):

# Compiling library (TODO)
#   (I’ll admit it. I have no idea how to compile a shared library, or even how to make Paws capable of being
#    compiled as a shared library.)

# Compiling executable (TODO)
#C99 -ISource \
#  Source/Types/fork/ll.tests.c \
#  Source/Types/fork/fork.tests.c \
#Source/Executable/Paws.c.c && ./Paws.c.o

# Compiling and running all tests
C99   -IVendor -DCEST__NO_AUTO Vendor/Cest.c/Source/Cest.c   -ISource \
  Source/Types/fork/ll.tests.c \
  Source/Types/fork/fork.tests.c \
Source/Paws.tests.c && ./Paws.tests.o

# Compiling and running all tests with gdb
C99 -ggdb   -IVendor -DCEST__NO_AUTO Vendor/Cest.c/Source/Cest.c   -ISource \
  Source/Types/fork/ll.tests.c \
  Source/Types/fork/fork.tests.c \
Source/Paws.tests.c && gdb -q -batch -x =(echo -e "run\nquit") -se ./Paws.tests.o

Makefile

This project will almost certainly never have a makefile. I love ISO C, and I love the CPP, so don’t misunderstand me for simply being too pandered-to by modern toolsets to handle the complexity:

GNU make sucks.

Just to be clear, SCons sucks too. So do Rake, CMake, and Waf. They all suck, they’re all bloated and overly verbose, and they all solve the wrong problem (at least for me. To each their own, and all that.)

When it becomes a big enough issue, I’ll probably write a custom buildtool for my C code. Something sleek and small, with file watchers, SHA1 comparison, git integration, and in-file dependency declaration.

Until then…

zsh; # I’m not very familiar with bash.
C99() { eval local last="\$$#"; last=${last##*/}; $CC -std=c99 -pedantic-errors -Wall -O0 -o "${last%.*}.o" "$@" }

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