Cwal: Scripting Engine Without a Language (opens in new tab)

(fossil.wanderinghorse.net)

67 pointsweeber1y ago10 comments

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Tangent/funny coincidence but seeing the domain wanderinghorse and the name Cwal, I assumed it comes from PL cwał (meaning "full gallop").

(it doesn't and it's pronounced as "see-wall")

0823498723498721y ago

for a PL-named PL, how about https://kokogut.sourceforge.net/kogut.html ?

johnecheck1y ago

The author should provide their definition of 'language'. I suspect that my definition is much broader.

In my eyes, such a subset of JSON absolutely can be a language in its own right. Indeed, I'd consider the idea of a usable computation model without a language an impossibility.

zem1y ago

very interesting project! the docs don't use the phrase "virtual machine"; i wonder if they don't consider it one, and if so, what the distinction is.

mcphage1y ago

Interesting, but the page says the project is in retirement.

pipeline_peak1y ago

I know this spoils the fun but couldn’t u just ask an AI to write your language engine?

Edit: based on my -2 karma, some of you guys don’t sound very open minded.

shakna1y ago

Buulding a VM is not a beginner task. You can get going if you have some basic understanding of various things, but getting anything half decent tends towards being a research project.

e.g. Scheme, Lua, etc.

AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope. It has no formal reasoning. A virtual machine is a formal reasoning engine.

pipeline_peak1y ago

> AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope

Do you have examples?

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rpastuszak1y ago

Tangent/funny coincidence but seeing the domain wanderinghorse and the name Cwal, I assumed it comes from PL cwał (meaning "full gallop").

(it doesn't and it's pronounced as "see-wall")

0823498723498721y ago

for a PL-named PL, how about https://kokogut.sourceforge.net/kogut.html ?

johnecheck1y ago

The author should provide their definition of 'language'. I suspect that my definition is much broader.

In my eyes, such a subset of JSON absolutely can be a language in its own right. Indeed, I'd consider the idea of a usable computation model without a language an impossibility.

zem1y ago

very interesting project! the docs don't use the phrase "virtual machine"; i wonder if they don't consider it one, and if so, what the distinction is.

mcphage1y ago

Interesting, but the page says the project is in retirement.

pipeline_peak1y ago

I know this spoils the fun but couldn’t u just ask an AI to write your language engine?

Edit: based on my -2 karma, some of you guys don’t sound very open minded.

shakna1y ago

Buulding a VM is not a beginner task. You can get going if you have some basic understanding of various things, but getting anything half decent tends towards being a research project.

e.g. Scheme, Lua, etc.

AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope. It has no formal reasoning. A virtual machine is a formal reasoning engine.

pipeline_peak1y ago

> AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope

Do you have examples?

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