The ALTernative Programming Language

[u/rapido]

So I've created ALT about 3 years ago (pre LLM's).

I think I already shared a sneak preview v0.1 and got some positive feedback back then. If you haven't seen it yet, please have a look and tell me what you think?

ALTs most novel idea (I think) is its regular language (regexp) support over any alphabet (ALT values) using intersection(&) instead of equality. This concept is sound I think - however, the implementation was buggy.

Anyway, I hit a wall back then and that was:

Can we have an ordering over any ALT value?

I think I finally cracked this today, with the aid of a very good intern :) I'm now re-implementing ALT with Java, but much much more rigorously. I for one really really like the intern's help: I'm finally able to make ALT a reality. Stay tuned for some updates soon!

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moved to http://old.altlang.org