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#+TITLE: Shentong #+AUTHOR: Mark Thom #+EMAIL: markjordanthom@gmail.com

• A Haskell implementation of the Shen programming language #+ATTR_HTML: align=center [[vajra.jpg]] \

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:

• mtl
• unordered-containers
• uniplate
• parallel
• hashmap

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