lwhite1/tablescript

a scripting language for tablesaw

tablescript

a scripting language for tablesaw

I'm not sure how far I will take this, at present it is a hobby effort, but it's something I've wanted to do for a few years so, maybe.

The idea is to write an interpreted, dynamically typed language that will get transpiled to Java and execute tablesaw commands in a more user-friendly way than is possible with native java tablesaw.

I've looked at a number of existing language designs: Smalltalk & Newspeak, SQL & Quel, Julia & R, Python & Pandas, as well Q and spreadsheets.

##Desiderata:

• purely object oriented: prototype inheritence (no classes), everything is a message
• super simple syntax
• 3 kinds of messages: unary (a factorial), binary (3 * 4), and keyword (aString replace: "xyz" with: "123").
• reflective: Mirror-based?
• high performance: Hard work is done in Tablesaw's primative-heavy, native Java
• modular
• Notebook-style interface
• REPL
• access control (public, private, ...)
• version-control friendly

I will provide additional information as the design solidifies.