Orchid

A simplistic functional programming language based around Lisp syntax.

Short taste

# function to return the larger list
(fn larger-list (as bs)
  (if (> (len as) (len bs))
    (as)
    # otherwise, return bs
    (bs)))

# main is ran by default when an Orchid program is interpreted
(fn main ()
  (larger-list '(1 2 3) '(1 2 3 4)))

Currently implemented:

• Calling builtin functions (eg print and all the arithmetic operators)
• if forms
• let forms/bindings which have correct scoping, as in:

(let ((x 2) (y 4))
  (print (+ x y)))
# both x and y are dropped here