“A scripting language for programming the Ivory System.”
Designed to support efficient dynamic programming and data persistence, IvoryScript offers:
| First-class names and types | Efficient handling of dyanamically typed values and binding names |
| On-demand data | Separate data types for unevaluated data |
| No implicit evaluation | Full control over when and how evaluation is performed. |
| Advanced pattern matching | Unrestricted data representation using constructor and deconstructor functions for advanced pattern matching |
| Pragmatic update | Controlled mutability for reference values in an otherwise functional paradigm |
| Multiple environments | Native ability to interact with multiple environments |
Computer science has two and precisely two problems: the naming of values, and the time at which a value is bound to a name.
Why IvoryScript? A programming tool for both and an expansion of the second: the time at which a value is reduced to a simpler form.