lambduck

  ,--('<  "if it walks like a lamb and quacks like a duck"
   w-w'

lambduck is a functional programming language.

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special forms
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\               | begins a lambda abstraction
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`               | applies a function, e.g. `0 1 applies 0 to 1
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0, 1, 99, ...   | gets a variable by its de bruijn index
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built in functions
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,               | gets a byte from stdin, encodes it into a church numeral, then
                | calls its argument with it
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.               | decodes its argument from a church numeral, modulos it by 256,
                | writes it to stdout as a byte, then returns its original
                | argument
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all other characters are ignored.

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examples
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true            | \\1
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false           | \\0
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z combinator    | \`\`1\``1 1 0\`1\``1 1 0
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echo            | `\`\`1\``1 1 0\`1\``1 1 0\`0`,.
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print "@"       | `.``\\``0 1``0 1``0 1``0 1``0 1 1\\`1`1 0\\\`2`1 0
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