chkoreff/Fexl

Function EXpression Language (interpreter for functional programs)

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• Epic commit message (27 points, 23 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-21)
• Fexl – Highly robust functional evaluation (10 points, 3 comments, by fexl, 2014-08-04)
• Fexl now uses dynamic symbol lookup. (2 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-03-23)
• Fexl version b24 released (2 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-03-29)
• Enhanced meta-parsing in Fexl, with example scripts. (2 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-04-16)
• Added file operations to Fexl (2 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-04-26)
• Fexl standard context now defined in terms of elegant combinators (2 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-05-01)
• Fexl: Wrote "fold" directly in C for 35% speed boost. (2 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-05-07)
• Fexl update (2 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-15)
• Fexl b16 released (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-03-24)
• Fexl now has support to manipulate Fexl types within Fexl. (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-03-26)
• Fexl version b26 released (1 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-03-30)
• Fexl b28 released (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-03-31)
• Fexl meta-parsing and symbol resolution radically simplified. (1 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-04-03)
• Helpful information in Fexl README (scroll down) (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-04-05)
• Fexl now has a top-level library written in Fexl itself. (1 points, 1 comments, by fexl, 2012-04-19)
• New "spawn" function in Fexl makes it easy to interact with a child process. (1 points, 2 comments, by fexl, 2012-05-03)
• Fexl now uses setrlimit to impose safe limits on child processes. (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-05-06)
• I added a standard Fexl routine that prints either leaf or tree values. (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-05-21)
• New version of Fexl (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-08-27)
• New release of Fexl (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-08-29)
• Radically simplified the parse result handling in Fexl. (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-12)
• Fexl update (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-14)
• Fexl update (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-15)
• I removed the disgusting symbol stacks from Fexl. (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-23)
• Improved build script for Fexl (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-23)
• You can now call readlink(2) from a Fexl program. (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-25)
• Fexl update (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2012-09-26)
• Fexl version with vastly improved handling of repeated side effects (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2013-01-06)
• New Fexl Release (default is eager evaluation instead of lazy) (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2014-06-10)
• Fexl now using purely functional evaluation (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2014-07-07)
• This is the functional language I use for real work (1 points, 0 comments, by fexl, 2017-03-21)