[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: hiccup, a toy tcl impersonator in haskell

[Kyle Consalus]

A while back I saw a toy tcl interpreter in 550 lines of C called
'picol'. I was looking for a simple language to implement in haskell,
so I made my own toy tcl interpreter. It was surprisingly easy to
make, thanks to the magic of Haskell and Bytestrings. :)  It handles a
few things incorrectly, and it is not feature complete, but I thought
maybe somebody else might find it interesting.

For the record (though it means nothing), my interpreter is about half
the size of picol and runs  about 30% faster in the few tests I've
run, despite having a few more features. (it was certainly less than
half the size of picol, but I keep tacking on functions when I get
bored).

Anyway, you can check it out at:
http://code.google.com/p/hiccup/

I plan on making it more complete and faithful to tcl, but I'm
branching into a different project for this one. However, any
suggestions to make hiccup more efficient, elegant, or correct are
certainly appreciated.

Cheers,

Kyle