Ginger is our attempt to build an elegant but friendly and practical programming system. It includes a programming language, virtual machine and supporting tools.
The programming language itself is syntax-neutral. By this we mean that you can choose any of several 'pluggable' front-end syntaxes - there's one rather like Algol/Pascal, another like Javascript, another like Lisp. They all get turned into an elegant back-end XML syntax.
Ginger is a modern programming language supporting automatic memory management, object oriented programming, pervasive multiple values and a simple but powerful data loading mechanism that includes data-format conversion.
Ginger is engineered to run on UNIX systems and is developed on OS X and Linux. Adapting it for other UNIXs is straightforward though.
- Follow the instructions in INSTALL
Execute the ginger command in a shell:
% ginger
- INSTALL.txt
- How to make and install AppGinger.
- README.rst
- This file.
- apps/automatic
- Automatically generated C++ files.
- apps/appginger
- Source for Ginger Virtual Machine
- apps/lisp2gnx
- Source for Lisp front end. (Work in progress.)
- apps/common2gnx
- Source for Common Syntax front end.
- design
- Developer's design notes. Not intended for programmers but contributors to the Ginger implementation.
- examples
- Examples of Common syntax (out of date).
- instruction_set
- Source code for instructions, C++
