eXtensible eXperimenal Language version Zero (XXL/0) ^{^{intended jokes}}

A self-hosting extensible language, VM/type system in Python3.

WARNING the code and language are HIGHLY fluid!

Please consider this a toy, not suitable for serious projects, until further notice!!!

Based on Douglas Crockford's TDOP JavaScript parser based on Vaughan Pratt's Top Down Operator Precedence Parsing (PDF) technique.
JavaScript-like syntax, Python3-like types, new statements, operators and classes can be added at runtime.
A sandbox for testing out ideas for "little languages"
The base language contains enough to write the compiler; (the compiler gives itself good coverage), plus a regression test suite.
Syntax -- core language syntax

Classes -- built in classes (machine generated HTML, delivered by external CDN)
Creating a new Class
Adding operators
- example of adding "^" operator
- extension adding "nullish" operators
Adding statements
- extension for "do" statement
- extension for "switch" statement
Priorities -- a loose ordering of design priorities
Influences -- language influences
Python -- interfacing with Python code
Style -- language style guide
Virtual Machine -- the ASAP Virtual Machine
Contributing -- please read this before creating a bug report, or a pull request
Bootstrapping -- reminder on bootstrapping features
Prehistory -- early influences and pre-github history

PL/1 was IBM's "One Language to Rule Them All" for System/360 (the one computer architecture anyone would ever need). PL/1 was meant to replace both FORTRAN for scientific code and COBOL for business applications; it was a large language which had no reserved words, and all numeric variables were declared with their precision.

XXL is intended to be the smallest possible core language, one that no one "needs" to use.
The first extensible language I heard of was Harvard's PPL Polymorphic Programming Language.
XXL is the U.S. clothing size two sizes larger than "large".

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