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October 22 2010
Introducing Koi - A language that teaches the basics of language implementation
"Most programming language implementations are written in low-level languages like C in order to maximize performance, and this generally makes them very opaque and difficult to follow. In order to avoid this problem Koi is written from the ground up in Ruby to make sure that the implementation language never gets in the way of the intent of the code. Koi will likely never be suitable for use as a production language, but that was never one of its goals.Koi is an imperative, dynamic, weakly-typed language with first-class functions. Koi’s syntax and features were influenced by Lua, JavaScript and Ruby. Additionally Koi makes a special point of working very hard to be unambigous in its syntax so that it is easy to write parsers for."
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