sfkleach/ginger repository overview

⁠Welcome to Ginger

Ginger is our attempt to build an elegant but friendly and practical programming system. It includes a programming language, virtual machine and supporting tools.

The programming language itself is syntax-neutral. By this we mean that you can choose any of several 'pluggable' front-end syntaxes - there's one rather like Algol/Pascal, another like Javascript, another like Lisp. They all get turned into an elegant back-end XML syntax.

Ginger is a modern programming language supporting automatic memory management, object oriented programming, pervasive multiple values and a simple but powerful data loading mechanism that includes data-format conversion.

Ginger is engineered to run on UNIX systems and is developed on OS X and Linux. Adapting it for other UNIXs is straightforward though.

⁠How to Install

• Follow the instructions in INSTALL__

.. __: https://raw.github.com/Spicery/ginger/master/INSTALL⁠

⁠How to Get Started

Execute the ginger command in a shell::

% ginger

⁠Contents

INSTALL.txt How to make and install AppGinger.

README.rst This file.

apps/automatic Automatically generated C++ files.

apps/appginger Source for Ginger Virtual Machine

apps/lisp2gnx Source for Lisp front end. (Work in progress.)

apps/common2gnx Source for Common Syntax front end.

design Developer's design notes. Not intended for programmers but contributors to the Ginger implementation.

examples Examples of Common syntax (out of date).

instruction_set Source code for instructions, C++

⁠Build status

travis-ci.org <https://travis-ci.org/Spicery/ginger>_

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