Manta (everything old is new again)
So, this language with the working title llizard… I’m going to change its name to Manta.
I’ve been tinkering with various incarnations of this language/idea for a *long* time. I believe the oldest versions were called Manta. This was back in, say, 1992, when I was still using Turbo Pascal. :-)
Anyway, the OCaml sources are now available. Get them here: [manta-20081222.tar.gz].
Big fat disclaimers apply. This code is not so recent (written in 2006), and it was my first non-trivial project in OCaml, so I’m sure I’m doing a lot of clumsy things… like writing my own version of functions and data structures that are probably available in some library, among other things. It matters not. This is only an experimental version, and I am making the code available for masochistic adventurous souls.
There’s currently no documentation included. Build it using the build script (Unixoid systems only). Obviously you’ll need a recent version of OCaml (3.x), and Python if you want to run build.py (which generates a makefile of some sort). More info will be available when I get around to giving this thing a separate project page. :-/
A newer version, if any, will probably be written in Python 3.0 or Clojure or something. I have no concrete plans right now, but this project has a tendency to resurface every few years or so.