#!/lang/perl
# hoho, nipl can mean `not insane programming language',
# OR it can mean `not insane perl'!

# 1. object-state-event-channel-protocol based
# 2. lazy-evaluation data-flow / constrainty
#    (functional / relational, like makefile)
#   - will need to distinguish the LATEST value of X (variable) from the value
#   of X at some (past) time t (constant) ...
# 3. contextual (fancy, first-class name spaces)
# 4. yaml-like protocol / data rep, like the textual conceptual-graph notation,
#   with ASK's concepts
# 5. exceptions implemented as multiple alternative returns (signals)
# 6. documentation of purpose within the code (not just a comment), such that the computer can report what was supposed to be happening when something went wrong...
# 7. order of presentation NOT determined by compiler, any order of `exposition' is ok, so make it readable to people!
# 8. use prototypes (fork / branching), not classes
# 9. functions, and relations.
# 10. allow macros / meta-syntactic forms


# could use shell instead of perl as a basis?
# or implement the features of make and sh within perl?
# Unify the concepts of (environment) variables and files... like mmap
# (i.e. have a `make' that operates over variables)

x + y = z:
	add z x y

FOO = z:
	FOO -> z

# try to implement the Euclidean GCD algorithm in make / declaratively, using
# serial numbers and conditional rules...