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+Scribble
+========
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+Scribble is desgined to be a family of languages designed such that you can scribble them on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch device without having to switch into the modal character insertion panel - i.e. you can write more of the language using just the characters on the main keyboard of the iOS device. Scribble languages need to meet these criteria:
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+1. Easy to write on an iOS touchscreen device without a physical keyboard.
+2. Provide a REPL.
+3. Compile down to an existing language.
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+The use case for Scribble languages is simple: to use as a calculator, to simply try out an algorithm and for other rapid prototyping needs on a handheld device.
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+This particular implementation of Scribble runs on top of Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine. It uses the JRuby JSR 223 implementation to wrap around a REPL.
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+It is currently very primitive but offers the following syntactical changes from Ruby:
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+* gt, lt, gte, lte, eq - these are substituted for operators
+* variable allocation using !
+* one-place lambda creation using ,,
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+This will be documented further, but in the spirit of [Why Day](http://whyday.org/) I wanted to put it out there quickly.