i have pet chickens, i make drawings, and i write software of questionable usefulness. that's pretty much the extent of my personality. ask me about array programming, decker, or anything, really.
Yesterday evening I put the finishing touches on Lila, an interpreter for my Lil scripting language (as seen in Decker) implemented in vanilla POSIX-compatible Awk. You may not be familiar with Awk, but if your computer runs Linux, BSD, Unix, or anything vaguely similar, there's a strong chance you already have it installed.
As a functional artifact, Lila's existence is perhaps dubious, but it was fun to write.
I'm seriously considering it. In principle Lila could also be very handy for my build/deploy scripts and compiling Decker's documentation.
the most awkward (:V) part of the whole thing was trying to figure out mostly portable workarounds for the insanely fragmented featureset of different implementations of date. I mean, just look at this, honestly.
And the spec guarantees that idiom should work, too! Looking forward to how the goawk maintainer handles that bug-report.
