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Shentong is a Haskell implementation of [[http://www.shenlanguage.org][Shen]], a modern Lisp family programming language which includes many advanced and interesting features. The name is thematically in keeping with that of /shen/, a construct from another esoteric religion.
Package dependencies are:
Shentong runs on a fully native Haskell backend directly ported from the backend written in Shen's kernel language, K Lambda. It is licensed under BSD 3. If cabal is not used to compile the sources, the GHC compiler option -fno-full-laziness must be used, as in
: ghc -O2 Shen.hs -fno-full-laziness
The current supported version is Shen 20.
Try it
: $> git clone https://github.com/mthom/shentong.git : $> cd shentong : $> cabal sandbox init : $> cabal install : $> cd .cabal-sandbox/bin : $> ./shen
or install it through Hackage:
: $> cabal install shentong : $> ./shen