Japalisp

Japanese Programming Language made as natural as possible. Its Github Page is here.

Why I made this

I wanted Japanese non-programmers (my friends) to realize that "thinking about computing is one of the most exciting things the human mind can do (from The Little Schemer)". Also, I wanted to explain the beauty of the Japanese language to non-Japanese programmers :)

What it does

• If you're familiar with the book The Little Schemer, most functions in Chapter 4 "Numbers Games" will work if you can define them properly. meaning you can:

  • define function
  • call funcation
  • do basic numeric calculations (using its underlying language)

How to use it

Currently, I used Ruby and Javascript to implement its interpreter.

Ruby version

There's japalisp bash script, please feed example.jpl to see what it's like(./japalisp example.jpl). If you want to contribute to its implementation, please look into ruby directory.

Javascript version

Under public/js directory, there's jexer.js which tokenizes code, and japalisp.js which interprets the tokens. Also, REPL in Github Page is using this version.