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- 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, [email protected].
- Dennis Furey
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