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The Book of Shen
The Book of Shen is the official guide to the Shen programming language.
Listing over 400 pages, TBoS includes a complete exposition of Shen, covering recursion, list, string and vector handling, macros, packages, streams, higher-order functions and the use of sequent calculus to define types. A thorough examination of the syntax, formal semantics, compiler and type theory underlying the language is incorporated.
Listing over 400 pages, TBoS includes a complete exposition of Shen, covering recursion, list, string and vector handling, macros, packages, streams, higher-order functions and the use of sequent calculus to define types. A thorough examination of the syntax, formal semantics, compiler and type theory underlying the language is incorporated.
404 pages, Paperback
First published February 13, 2013
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March 2, 2021
Bad typography, non monospace font for source code - a pain to read.
Macros chapter is rather weak.
Some unrelated CS stuff for learning the language.
All in all good language manual, but does not convince to use the language.
Macros chapter is rather weak.
Some unrelated CS stuff for learning the language.
All in all good language manual, but does not convince to use the language.
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