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## Introduction
tricu (pronounced "tree-shoe") is a purely functional interpreted language implemented in Haskell. It is fundamentally based on the application of [Tree Calculus](https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/typed_tree_calculus/blob/main/typed_program_analysis.pdf) terms, but minimal syntax sugar is included to provide a useful programming tool.
tricu (pronounced "tree-shoe") is a purely functional interpreted language implemented in Haskell. It is fundamentally based on the application of [Tree Calculus](https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/typed_tree_calculus/blob/main/typed_program_analysis.pdf) terms, but minimal syntax sugar is included.
*tricu is under active development and you should expect breaking changes with every commit.*
*This experiment has concluded. tricu will see no further development or bugfixes.*
tricu is the word for "tree" in Lojban: `(x1) is a tree of species/cultivar (x2)`.
## Features
## Acknowledgements
- Tree Calculus operator: `t`
- Immutable definitions: `x = t t`
- Lambda abstraction: `id = (a : a)`
- List, Number, and String literals: `[(2) ("Hello")]`
- Function application: `not (not false)`
- Higher order/first-class functions: `map (a : append a "!") [("Hello")]`
- Intensionality blurs the distinction between functions and data (see REPL examples)
- Simple module system for code organization
Tree Calculus was discovered by [Barry Jay](https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/blog).
[treecalcul.us](https://treecalcul.us) is an excellent website with an intuitive Tree Calculus code playground created by [Johannes Bader](https://johannes-bader.com/) that introduced me to Tree Calculus.
## REPL examples
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-f --file=FILE Optional input file path to attempt decoding.
Defaults to stdin.
```
## Collaborating
I am happy to accept issue reports, pull requests, or questions about tricu [via email](mailto:james@eversole.co).
If you want to collaborate but don't want to email back-and-forth, please reach out via email once to let me know and I will provision a git.eversole.co account for you.
## Acknowledgements
Tree Calculus was discovered by [Barry Jay](https://github.com/barry-jay-personal/blog).
[treecalcul.us](https://treecalcul.us) is an excellent website with an intuitive Tree Calculus code playground created by [Johannes Bader](https://johannes-bader.com/) that introduced me to Tree Calculus.