August 26, 2012

This project is essentially an investigation of some off-beat ideas about functional 
programming through the design and implementation of a novel language called Ursala
(a pseudo-acronym for universal applicative language). Its main preoccupations are
brevity and flexibility for rapid prototyping, with a bias toward applications involving
text processing/compilation, trees, graphs, and number crunching (via built-in API's
for some good numerical libraries such as lapack, gsl, mpfr, and others). It's probably
best suited to individual projects because it enforces no particular coding standards or
practices and makes unreadable code easier to write than most non-esoteric languages.

Ursala is mainly an individual effort that has been around for some years but
neglected lately due my day job. I'm now looking to revive it and address some issues,
such as improving the web presence and on-line documentation. Comments and feedback
are welcome on the mailing list, ursala-users@freelists.org.

Dennis Furey
