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