github: https://github.com/ponyatov/pycat
Jupyter notebook render: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ponyatov/pycat/blob/master/pycat.ipynb
This manual is about learning Picat programming language by reimplementing it yourself from scratch.
This method is not for a total newbie in programming as you must know Python a bit to start, and have some entry-level programming skills. The Python was selected as it is the most popular programming language now for programming learning, and because this language implementation is so dynamic, as you can implement your own language system atop of PVM runtime. The advantage of learning by reimplementing is you are able not only embed this scripting engine to any software system you are doing but also deeply understand the original Picat.
But it is not the end as this Picat implementation uses not pure Python but the metaL: homoiconic hypergraph model written itself in Python -- executable data structure (EDS) built from some sort of Marvin Minsky frames [minsky]. It was mostly selected to make this language to be not visual but visualizable: it is important for the newbies that a learning programming system to be Smalltalk-like interactive and deeply researchable.
Copyright (c) 2019 Dmitry Ponyatov <[email protected]>
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~$ git clone -o gh https://github.com/ponyatov/pycat ; cd pycat
~/pycat$ make install~/pycat$ .bin/activate
(venv)$ jupyter notebook pycat.ipynb &-
A Framework for Representing Knowledge (c) Marvin Minsky, 1974
- Фреймы для представления знаний (c) Марвин Минский, М.: Мир, 1979
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Programming Python, 4th Edition (c) Mark Lutz, O'Reilly 2019
- Изучаем Python. Том 1 (c) Марк Лутц, М.: Вильямс, 2019
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- http://picat-lang.org/
- Constraint Solving and Planning with Picat (c) Neng-Fa Zhou, Håkan Kjellerstrand, Jonathan Fruhman
- Hakan Kjellerstrand page
- http://picat-lang.org/
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Picat code samples (c) Claudio Cesar de Sá