https://gigasquidsoftware.com/categories/star/Recent content in Star on Squid's BlogHugoen-usWed, 11 Jun 2014 10:38:00 +0000https://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/06/11/a-taste-of-the-star-programming-language/Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:38:00 +0000https://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2014/06/11/a-taste-of-the-star-programming-language/<p>A while ago, I was <a href="http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2013/05/01/growing-a-language-with-haskell-and-instaparse/">exploring creating a programming language with Instaparse</a>. I ended up exploring some concepts of Speech Acts proposed by John McCarthy by creating my first toy language called <a href="http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2013/06/04/babar-a-little-language-with-speech-acts-for-machines/">Babar</a>. Shortly after posting a blog about it, I got an email from someone saying that I might be interested in a full blown, real programming language that also incorporated Speech Acts. I happily started composing an reply to the email that started off with</p>