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keepsake: rouge

Over a decade ago, I wrote the programming language Rouge (wayback1) — a reimplementation of Clojure in Ruby, the language itself adapted for the specifics of its new home. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but it was a fun diversion.

To my surprise, some years later, I noticed a gist turn up, written in Rouge2. Wondering perhaps what else there might be, I sniffed around, and found …

screenshot of an e-book in japanese

screenshot of the same book further down; more code in this one

… a fucking book! Three pages of a Japanese e-book called A Delicious Introduction to Clojure are dedicated to a language I wrote. Source here for the curious3.

I periodically re-find and lose this thread again, so recording it once and for all here. I finally bought the actual e-book, too; seems like the least I can do.

  1. wish the CSS were preserved, or that monorepos were already in vogue and I still had the website source. iirc it was pretty!

  2. and indeed, turns out that user has a couple more!

  3. either clone the repo locally or log in to see past the root, you aren’t asked for anything beyond the OAuth dance, just want some representation that you’re not a scraper.

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