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While experimenting with some fairly math-intensive computer graphics (signed distance fields and procedural texture generation) I realized that I needed a refresher on algebra, calculus and trig. I'm well covered in linear and geometric algebra, but I'd like something that I can use as a reference ...

From 2007, but still quite relevant in its usage of PEGs/Packrat to compose very different grammars into a single language. The runtime mutability aspect is also a fairly major departure from the traditional offline compiler approach. This example form the documentation sums how powerful it can b...

Also worth checking out: the [related HN discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13773813) (from 2017)

A noteworthy fact about Restructor: I features "a visual programming environment [that] tries to make code look as much as possible like a textual language for familiarity, but is a tree based editor underneath."

Computer graphics and statistics often use parameters with values defined in the [0‥1] interval. How would you name a type for such as value (as in `typedef NNN float`) It seems that the only mathematical term that fits these requirements is "mantissa"' but it's an overloaded term in computer sci...

I had never heard of Adept before, and have no idea if it actually meets its performance claims, but given the rising popularity of low-level, "systems programming" languages, it might be worth checking out.

Also, see [Firm's comparison with LLVM](https://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/LLVM.html)