Myr-Fu
This project is a catch-all "Myrddin practice" repository. I'm basically grinding for levels by killing scorpids in Durotar.
I'll just apologize now for that awful analogy.
Myrddin
Myrddin is "Merlin" in the original Welsh, before a French author mangled the name to avoid introducing his readers to a word that sounded too much like the French word for "shit".
Myrddin is a (currently new) safe, performant, binary compiled, low-level systems programming language. According to the website, "Myrddin emphasizes control, simplicity, a clear mental model, and predictable, transparent behavior. It features strong type checking, generics, type inference, closures, and traits. It aims to fit a similar niche as C, but with fewer bullets in your feet."
Upon first looking at it, I became immediately interested in the look of the language, which offers some syntactic elegance that seemed somewhat familiar to me. It was not until someone else mentioned it resembled Standard ML a bit -- one of my favorite programming languages -- that I realized why its syntax seemed so familiar.
Roadmap
This isn't so much of a map as a collection of a toddler's crayon scribbles on the living room wall.
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Follow instructional materials on the Myrddin website; reformat code samples in my own particular idiom for mental-muscle memory, and run them. This stuff goes in the
myrsitedirectory for now. In addition to the examples on the homepage, see also the tutorial page. -
Write toy programs of my own devising for exploratory practice. This stuff goes in the
adhockerydirectory for now. -
Maybe write Myrddin versions of programs I've written in other languages for further practice. I should try to remember to mention where I'll stash that once I have something to stash.