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----- content-type: "page" title: "Welcome to min" ----- <div class="note"> <p>Under Construction</p> <p>This site is under construction and the language documentation is incomplete. However, you can already <a href="/download/">download</a> a pre-release of min to try it out.</p> </div> <div class="pure-g"> <section class="pitch pure-u-1 pure-u-md-2-3"> <em>min</em> is a functional, concatenative programming language with a minimalist syntax, a small but practical standard library, and an advanced REPL. All packed in less than 1MB. </section> <section class="centered pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-3"> <a class="pure-button pure-button-primary" href="/download/"><i class="ti-download"></i> download min v{{$version}}</a> <br> <small> <a href="https://github.com/h3rald/min">Repository</a> | <a href="https://github.com/h3rald/min/issues">Issue Tracking</a> </small> </section> </div> <div class="pure-g"> <section class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2"> <h2>Features</h2> <ul> <li>Follows the <strong>functional</strong> and <strong>concatenative</strong> programming paradigms.</li> <li>Provides a wide range of <strong>combinators</strong> for advanced stack manipulation and dequoting.</li> <li>Provides a <strong>minimal set of data types</strong>: integer, floats, strings, booleans, and quotations (lists).</li> <li>Fully <strong>homoiconic</strong>, all code can be accessed as data via quotations.</li> <li>Includes an <strong>advanced REPL</strong> with auto-completion and history management.</li> <li>Provides a lightweight <strong>module system</strong>.</li> <li>Provides <strong>sigils</strong> as syntactic sugar to access environment variables, quoting, defining and binding data, etc.</li> <li>Includes a small, useful <strong>standard library</strong> for common tasks.</li> <li>Self-contained, statically compiled into single file, in <strong>less than 1MB</strong>.</li> </ul> </section> <section class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2"> <h2>Examples</h2> <p>The following example shows how to find recursively all <code>.c</code> files in the current folder that are bigger than 100KB:</p> <pre> <code> . ls-r ( dup "\.c$" match (fsize 100000 >) dip and ) filter </code> </pre> <p>The following example shows how to calculate the factorial of 5 using the <code>linrec</code> combinator:</p> <pre> <code> 5 (dup 0 ==) (1 +) (dup 1 -) (*) linrec </code> </pre> </section> </div> |