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+# sapling
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+sapling is a "micro-language" that I'm working on to investigate [Tree Calculus](https://treecalcul.us/specification) .
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+It offers a minimal amount of syntax sugar:
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+- `t` operator behaving by the rules of Tree Calculus
+- Variable definitions
+- Lambda abstractions
+- List, Integer, and String literals
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+This is an active experimentation project by someone who has no idea what they're doing.
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+## Acknowledgements 
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+Tree Calculus was discovered by [Barry Jay](https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/blog). 
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+[treecalcul.us](https://treecalcul.us) is an excellent website with an intuitive playground created by [Johannes Bader](https://johannes-bader.com/) that introduced me to Tree Calculus. If sapling sounds interesting but you don't want to figure out how to compile Haskell, check his site out.