NAME
Lingy - A Programming Language for Acmeist Modules
SYNOPSIS
> lingy --to=perl6 module.ly.yaml
DESCRIPTION
Lingy is a programming language, but not in the typical sense. It has no
syntax and it has no runtime. The main point of Lingy is generate
equivalent code in many popular programming languages.
Lingy defines the internal structure of a program. A program in Lingy is
a well defined data structure. The data structure contains all the
information necessary to produce equivalent "real" code in many
langauges.
Programs in Lingy are graphs in memory. They can serialized, thus they
can conceptually be *written* using a serialization like YAML. However
any syntax that can compile to a valid Lingy data structure, is a valid
Lingy syntax. Thus it is intended that Lingy will have many syntaxes.
One syntax that is being developed in parallel is called CafeScript. You
can think of it as a language like CoffeeScript, except that instead of
just compiling to one language, it compiles to many languages (including
JavaScript).
Lingy is currently targeting class-based OO languages, like Perl, Ruby,
Python, PHP and JavaScript.
AUTHOR
Ingy döt Net <
[email protected]>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2014. Ingy döt Net.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
See <
http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>