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Phel: the Lisp that compiles to PHP
Phel is a Functional Programming (FP) language that compiles to PHP. It is a dialect of Lisp inspired by Clojure and Janet. Phel is a creation of Jens Haase and, as he mentions on the website, “it is the result of many failed attempts to do functional programming in PHP”. He was looking for something with these characteristics: From my point, it was at the end of May 202 0 when I finished the book “Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages”, in which I learned a bit of Prolog, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell…
Suddenly, one day at the beginning of June 2020, I saw a post in Reddit's PHP official channel with a message of someone mentioning this “Phel” project, claiming to be a “functional programming language written in PHP”!
Suddenly, one day at the beginning of June 2020, I saw a post in Reddit's PHP official channel with a message of someone mentioning this “Phel” project, claiming to be a “functional programming language written in PHP”!
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