# Abacus
Abacus is a experimental, interpreted functional programming language with a pleasant REPL
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## Highlights
- Persistent REPL environment with history and an ANSI-colored prompt.
- 64-bit integers, double-precision floats, and booleans with straightforward formatting.
- Arithmetic, comparison, logical, and bitwise operators with predictable precedence.
- Pattern-matched function arms: mix literals and identifiers and the most specific match runs.
- Helpful diagnostics that underline exactly where evaluation failed.
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## Install
### Cargo
```bash
cargo install abacus
```
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## Try It
### Usage
- Start the interactive REPL: `abc`
- Evaluate a single expression and print the result: `abc -e "2 + 2"`
- Execute a source file (runs each line in order, sharing the same environment): `abc path/to/program.abc`
- Disable ANSI colors for scripts or terminals that do not support them: add `--no-color` (e.g. `abc --no-color -e "1/3"`)
REPL sessions retain history, coloring, and diagnostic output between entries:
```text
[0x00]: rate = 0.0825
[0x01]: with_tax(amount) = amount * (1 + rate)
[0x02]: with_tax(24.99)
[0x02]: 27.05475
[0x03]: fib(0) = 0
[0x04]: fib(1) = 1
[0x05]: fib(n) = fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
[0x06]: fib(10)
[0x06]: 55
[0x07]: odd(n) = n % 2 == 1
[0x08]: odd(41)
[0x08]: true
```
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## Build From Source
```bash
cargo build
```
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## License
This project is licensed under the [MIT License](./LICENSE.md).