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**Lamb** is a toy dynamically typed functional programming language
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It's not meant for real-world use but for educational purposes on writing an interpreter with pattern matching in Haskell.
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**Features**
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* No re-assignment (i.e., once you bind a value, you can't re-assign it)
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* Pattern matching: `f([]) -> "nothing". f([a]) -> one thing".`
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* Imperative I/O
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* Higher-order functions
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* Lexical scope
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**Hello World!**
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From `examples/helloworld.lamb`:
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hello() -> "hello, " + hello("world").
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hello(object) -> object + "!".
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putstrln(hello()).
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See other examples in the `examples` directory.
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**License**
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Licensed under the terms of the zlib license. See `LICENSE` for details.
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