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Swanson

Swanson is the programming language framework that I'm working on.

Swanson website

S₀

S₀ bytecode

Four stacks

Continuation-passing S₀: The return

Bethel stacks

Slip and slurp

Concatenative

Should Swanson be concatenative?

A linear basis for Swanson

Stack values

Stacks should be first-class

Should stack values be modeled as quotations?

Staged stacks are just values

Quotations

Closing over values

Staged programming

Towers of stacks

Miscellaneous

There shouldn't be any names in S₀

Branches are the key

Out of date

Primitives should be primitive

Swanson formalism

Rethinking the enum and struct modules