ISETL Resurrected

This is code that was last touched in 1990. As such, there are still some issues trying to get it to run correctly on modern versions of Linux. FIXED I am not trying to get it to run on other platforms.

• There are the source files for documents in Docs, written in TeX. There are lineprinter approximations in ReadableDocs. Again, trying to get ancient TeX to format is a task for a later time.

• There are test programs in tests. The idea there is that running isetl on *.t should produce *.r. Currently there a few cases that fail. I am working on tracking down the issues. FIXED

• Finally, there are many sample programs in samples.

  • The top level of the directory are the more straight forward examples.
  • Lower directories have more specialized programs.
  • Some of them were intended to work with graphics output, which is currently not supported.

• See howto.ubuntu for building instructions

If you are interested in writing extensions to the language, feel free to fork and send pulll requests.

If you want to read the history of ISETL and SETL, the language upon which it was based, see http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/SETL/index_html#ISETL.

Issues

• Some ISETL programs fail either assertions or core dump.
• The command line editor is not working with the modern version of curses.
• No support for Mac or Windows.
• No support for graphics.