Since Poki Nanpa is a functional language, everything happens at once. That puts it at odds with most graphical programs, which require a sequence of instructions. The solution is to use the functional aspects of Poki Nanpa to construct a … Continue reading →

With the language specification nearly finished, it’s time to put together a very basic prototype of what the actual interface for programming in Poki Nanpa is going to look like so that I can start writing the interpreter in an … Continue reading →

As I begin to think about how the graphical output of Poki Nanpa will integrate with its written code, it’s important to consider that there will not be a console to print errors and debugging information to. The graphical output … Continue reading →

Unsurprisingly, the most important part of a functional language is defining and calling functions. The first way of calling functions in Poki Nanpa came about as a natural result of considering how numbers are written in Toki Pona. First, a … Continue reading →

Since the last blog post, which was a while ago and missed a lot of important developments, the first half of the project has been submitted. I’ll try to keep it updated more often from now on. I’ve settled on … Continue reading →