rpastuszak2 days ago
Tangent/funny coincidence but seeing the domain wanderinghorse and the name Cwal, I assumed it comes from PL cwał (meaning "full gallop").
(it doesn't and it's pronounced as "see-wall")
0823498723498722 days ago
for a PL-named PL, how about https://kokogut.sourceforge.net/kogut.html ?
johnecheck2 days ago
The author should provide their definition of 'language'. I suspect that my definition is much broader.
In my eyes, such a subset of JSON absolutely can be a language in its own right. Indeed, I'd consider the idea of a usable computation model without a language an impossibility.
zema day ago
very interesting project! the docs don't use the phrase "virtual machine"; i wonder if they don't consider it one, and if so, what the distinction is.
mcphage2 days ago
Interesting, but the page says the project is in retirement.
pipeline_peaka day ago
I know this spoils the fun but couldn’t u just ask an AI to write your language engine?
Edit: based on my -2 karma, some of you guys don’t sound very open minded.
shaknaa day ago
Buulding a VM is not a beginner task. You can get going if you have some basic understanding of various things, but getting anything half decent tends towards being a research project.
e.g. Scheme, Lua, etc.
AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope. It has no formal reasoning. A virtual machine is a formal reasoning engine.
pipeline_peaka day ago
> AI, as it stands, screws up the basics, let alone something if this scope
Do you have examples?
Novosella day ago
Ask the LLM for examples of LLMs fucking up on simple tasks. Either it succeeds, proving the point, or fails, also proving the point.
I had both GPT-4o and llama3.1, through duck.ai, make up kscreen-doctor commands the other day. Commands that were easily formatted by simply looking at the output of kscreen-doctor --help.
shaknaa day ago
Pretty much everything shown here [0]