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# James Martin's Lambda Calculus
An implementation of various type systems and evaluation strategies
for the lambda calculus.
Currently, this is a simple implementation of the untyped lambda calculus.
However, my ultimate goal for the project is to slowly add practical features and type systems to the lambda calculus
until it has become usable as an independent programming language.
This project is a work-in-progress, and currently lacks many essential features
that would be necessary to be a useful programming language.
I have implemented many of those features in previous versions of the project (see the Git history),
including many AST representations and a partial implementation of Thyer's optimal evaluation algorithm,
but ended up starting a new rewrite because my old code was unnecessarily complex.
These features will be added back on as time progresses.
Also note that the rest of this README pertains to a previous revision of the repository and does not apply anymore.
I will update it the next time I have a chance to work on this project.
## Usage
Type in your expression at the prompt: `>> `.