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----- content-type: "page" title: "Welcome to the min programming language" ----- <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 about 1MB<sup>*</sup>. </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> | <a href="https://cdn.rawgit.com/h3rald/min/master/Min_DeveloperGuide.htm">Guide</a> </small> </section> </div> <div class="pure-g"> <section class="pure-u-1 pure-u-md-1-2"> <h2>Features</h2> <ul> <li>Entirely written in <a href="https://nim-lang.org">Nim</a>. It can be easily embedded in other nim programs.</li> <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.</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 files in the current folder that were modified in the last hour:</p> <pre> <code> . ls-r (mtime now 3600 - >) 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> <div class="pure-g"> <section class="pure-u-1"> <small><sup>*</sup>: On Windows is actually more than 1MB, but on macOS and Linux it is considerably less. Let's just say 1MB is a good compromise.</small> </section> </div> |