Comment by samatman
2 years ago
The author, Dr. Mark Tarver, is perhaps best known for the essay The Bipolar Lisp Programmer: https://marktarver.com/bipolar.html
If you want to jump straight into what makes Shen interesting, read Part 10 of the manual, starting with recursive types: https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Recursive.html
He has also published The Book of Shen, which is really interesting.
Sadly, the lack of extensive free documentation is probably harming Shen's popularity.
Agree, freely available extensive documentation is a must. The link to Book of Shen is for UK. To find it elsewhere, search for the isbn, eg. https://www.amazon.com/s?k=1915012112
Edit: The book is available online, but is scanned in low res blurry format, very not readable.
Not sure it is. It it sort of hypertext ???
https://shenlanguage.org/OSM/Introduction.html
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