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# Lama
# Lama
![lama](lama.png) is a programming language developed by JetBrains Research for educational purposes as an exemplary language to introduce
the domain of programming languages, compilers and tools. Its general characteristics are:
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* with user-defined infix operators, including those defined in local scopes;
* with automatic memory management (garbage collection).
The name \lama is an acronym for $\lambda$**-Algol** since the language has borrowed the syntactic shape of
The name ![lama](lama.png) is an acronym for ![lama](lalgol.png) since the language has borrowed the syntactic shape of
operators from **Algol-68**; [**Haskell**](www.haskell.org) and [**OCaml**](www.ocaml.org) can be
mentioned as other languages of inspiration.
The main purpose of \lama is to present a repertoire of constructs with certain runtime behavior and
The main purpose of ![lama](lama.png) is to present a repertoire of constructs with certain runtime behavior and
relevant implementation techniques. The lack of a type system (a vital feature for a real-word language
for software engineering) is an intensional decision which allows to show the unchained diversity
of runtime behaviors, including those which a typical type system is called to prevent. On the other hand
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The current implementation contains a native code compiler for **x86-32**, written
in **OCaml**, a runtime library with garbage-collection support, written in **C**, and a small
standard library, written in \lama itself. The native code compiler uses **gcc** as a toolchain.
standard library, written in ![lama](lama.png) itself. The native code compiler uses **gcc** as a toolchain.
In addition, a source-level reference interpreter is implemented as well as a compiler to a small
stack machine. The stack machine code can in turn be either interpreted on a stack machine interpreter, or