dragoncoder047/json_runner

JSON is Turing-complete. Wait, what?!?

• I mostly use Javascript for web apps and Python for tools.
• I picked up C++ and C via the use of Arduinos and have been self-taught otherwise.
• I enjoy functional, homoiconic, and object-oriented langauges (especially Scheme) but have not had much experience using Scheme or Lisp. I'm trying to design one of my own but so far it's all just theoretical.
• I have a blog that I occasionally write stuff on.
• I am a member of the Conwaylife.com forums under the username wirehead.
• I have a YouTube channel -- check that out when you get a chance.

Some of my projects

• Schemascii - A Python program to convert ASCII art circuit diagrams into nice SVG schematics.
• uLisp fork - My fork of uLisp with new, experimental features.
• Langton-Music - A simulator for musical Langton's Ant.
• Armdroid 1000 - A website about the old Armdroid 1000 with a bunch of resources (manual, circuit diagram, photos, miscallaneous reverse-engineering, etc).

Noteworthy but incomplete/WIP stuff

• Parasite - A game that can't be beaten by the player: you have to teach the NPC's how to play it for you.
• PICKLE and Tinobsy - A new idea for a programming language, and a type system to implement it.

Note: I excluded Javascript from the above language stats because its verbosity (curly braces, JSDoc comments, etc.) compared to other languages artificially inflates the amount of Javascript I seem to have written. Only about 60% of those lines are meaningful code.

json_runner's Issues

Super recursivity needs to be fixed

Try using an explicit stack instead of the Python stack. Then that would allow almost-infinite recursion (limited only by Python memory.

Also allow tail-call optimization (on lists)?

Parsing is broken

• You can't include parens inside a string.
• You can't include unmatched quotes in a quote parse (i.e. if you're writing the word it's)
• If a word includes a text operator it will be broken (sandbox parses as s and box; door parses as do or, etc)

The string part is fixed in the dragoncoder047/langton-music@44e68e9 (v3-dev) interpolator port; need to fix word operators there and here