Porting existing half-baked languages to plzoo

[matijapretnar]

We still have some other languages in various stages of development laying around:

• calc+var (which I guess is an older version of calc_var, but I did not look exactly where it diverged)
• comm (a simple imperative language)
• commar (a simple imperative language with arrays)
• dat (mini SQL)
• minicalc (again it looks like an older version of calc)
• minimlcatch (looks like miniml_error plus error handling)
• minimlp (miniml with pairs)
• minscheme (mini Scheme - without callcc)
• ob (looks like an older version of boa)
• ulc (looks like an older version of lambda)

These languages are not mature enough to put in plzoo, but could be a useful starting point for future contributions, so I would make them public. Where would be an appropriate place to put them? A subfolder, a separate branch?

[andrejbauer]

A separate branch, one per language.

[matijapretnar]

I understand you want to keep master clean, but I don't want to have a dozen of inactive branches in the repository. So, whoever is interested in porting any of the languages can message me and I will be happy to send them the files. I'll also rename this issue to attract anyone interested.

[andrejbauer]

It would be better to have one issue per language, so you we can close them, and perhaps organize them into a milestone.

[matijapretnar]

Oh, and then I could just attach a ZIP with the source code to each issue!

[minad]

Hi, thank you for this great repository. I enjoyed it very much as a learning resource!

May I suggest a separate repository plzoo-staging for the half-baked languages (instead of branches or zips)? I think that could also attract contributions.

[andrejbauer]

What's the point of a separate repository? It'll just become obsolete. I still think the best way is to just fork this repository, add a language (half baked or not), and then merge it once it's ready.