wimvanderbauwhede/haku: Haku is a toy functional language with grammar, syntax and vocabulary inspired by Japanese. - haku - Codeberg.org

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To run Haku you'll need to install the Raku programming language. If you plan to use Raku (it is a wonderful language), I recommend you use the Rakubrew installation tool.

I am assuming you'll run Haku on command line, in the directory cloned from Git or where you unzipped the downloaded archive.

In that directory is a script haku. Example programs are in the subdirectory examples (horizontal writing) and examples/tategaki (vertical writing).

The first time you run haku will take quite a long time (several minutes) because Raku needs to compile the modules to bytecode. After that, it should only take a few seconds.

Katakana is for variables, kanji for functions and keywords, hiragana for keywords and verb endings (e.g. in 掛ける and 見せる).

This roughly reads as "as for RAMUDA, with a given X it is X times X", so RAMUDA binds to a lambda function. In Scheme this becomes: