mal/examples/clojurewest2014.mal

;; Mal Presentation

(def! clear
  (fn* ()
    (str "")))

(def! bold
  (fn* (s)
    (str "" s "")))

(def! blue
  (fn* (s)
    (str "" s "")))

(def! title
  (fn* (s)
    (bold (blue (str s "\n")))))

(def! title2
  (fn* (s)
    (bold (blue s))))


(def! conj-slides
  (list
   (list
    (title2 " __  __    _    _")
    (title2 "|  \\/  |  / \\  | |")
    (title2 "| |\\/| | / _ \\ | | ")
    (title2 "| |  | |/ ___ \\| |___ ")
    (title2 "|_|  |_/_/   \\_\\_____|"))
   (list
    (title "gherkin")
    "- a lisp1 written in bash4")
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure"))
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure")
    "- written in GNU make")
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure")
    "- written in GNU make"
    "- and Bash 4")
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure")
    "- written in GNU make"
    "- and Bash 4"
    "- and Javascript")
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure")
    "- written in GNU make"
    "- and Bash 4"
    "- and Javascript"
    "- and Python")
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure")
    "- written in GNU make"
    "- and Bash 4"
    "- and Javascript"
    "- and Python"
    "- and Clojure")
   (list
    (title "mal - an interpreter for a subset of Clojure")
    "- written in GNU make"
    "- and Bash 4"
    "- and Javascript"
    "- and Python"
    "- and Clojure"
    "- and C and Java and PHP")
   (list
    (title "things it has")
    "- scalars: integers, strings, symbols, nil, true, false"
    "- immutable collections: lists, vectors, hash-maps"
    "- metadata, atoms"
    "- def!, fn*, let*"
    "  - varargs: (fn* (x y & more) ...)"
    "- tail call optimization"
    "  -  except GNU make implementation (no iteration)"
    "- macros (quote, unquote, quasiquote, splice-quote)"
    "- almost 300 unit tests"
    "- REPL with readline (GNU readline or libedit)")
   (list
    (title "things it does not have")
    "- performance"
    "- namespaces"
    "- keywords"
    "- GC (in bash, make, C implementations)"
    "- lots of other things")
   (list
    (title "why?")
    "- because!")
   (list
    (title "why?")
    "- because!"
    "- gherkin was an inspiration to higher levels of crazy"
    "- evolved into learning tool"
    "- way to learn about Lisp and also the target language"
    "- each implementation broken into small 10 steps")
   (list
    (title "thanks to:")
    "- Peter Norvig: inspiration: lispy"
    "  - http://norvig.com/lispy.html"
    "- Alan Dipert: gherkin, original gherkin slides"
    "  - https://github.com/alandipert/gherkin")
   (list
    (title "mal - Make a Lisp")
    "https://github.com/kanaka/mal")
   (list
    (title "demo"))))

(def! present
  (fn* (slides)
    (if (> (count slides) 0)
      (do
        ;;(py!* "import os; r = os.system('clear')")
        ;;(sh* "clear")
        ;;(make* "$(shell clear)")
        (println (clear))

        ;;(prn (first slides))
        (apply println (map (fn* (line) (str "\n        " line)) (first slides)))
        (println "\n\n\n")
        (readline "")
        (present (rest slides))))))

(present conj-slides)