The Trithorpe Programming Language

Trithorpe is a minimalist programming language influenced mostly by Unithorpe but also by Lua, Io, FORTH, TCL, and other dynamic programming lanuages.

TODO: write some docs. And finish the language.

Differences from Unithorpe:

• Instead of two kinds of values ( Unicode characters and arrays ), trithorpe has three kinds ( integers, symbols, and tables )
• Instead of all identifiers are a single Unicode character, trithorpe symbols can be 0-3 latin-1 characters, or 4 if the first is a roman ASCII letter (actually, characters 65 'A' to 126 '~').
• Instead of 3-register-based operations, trithorpe is a typical stack-based VM model
• Trithorpe functions are all "object style", with a Receiver object and a message symbol as the first two internal arguments.
• Rather than having the stack frames as data the user can tweak, they are now internally managed by the interpreter.

Snapshots

• Incomplete, only runs builtin unit tests: trithorpe-2005-05-09d.tgz

  Works: reference counting, tritype, tricodes, calling functions on Lobby, recursion, iteration, if, while, break, return.

  Demos: recursive factorial & triangle. iterative triangle.

• trithorpe-2005-05-11-1838.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-12-1900.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-13-0427.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-17-0334.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-18-0314.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-18-1804.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-21-0117.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-26-1326.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-29-0317.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-05-31-0148.tgz
• 30lisp.tri
• trithorpe-2005-06-02-0329.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-06-13-0201.tgz
• trithorpe-2005-06-18-1350.tgz
• oglethorpe-2005-10-31a.tgz