Upcoming talk, compiler runs real programs

I'm giving a talk at SAPLING18 which is an informal meeting following http://aplas2018.org/. See at the bottom of the "tracks" menu, but the link is down as I write. I have preliminary "death by powerpoint" slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1a72bKhCxfNBj7lqPVWfqLPDW_QPgQEKy7N0LM8RCo0o/edit?usp=sharing. Hopefully they'll be improved for the actual talk. I'll also be at the main conference. I'm shy, but happy to talk to anyone. I'll also be there on the Saturday before the meeting if anyone wants to have coffee or some such. My email is robert.kenneth.smart@gmail.com. To finish off wombat I need an effects system, and a proof system, but I'm happy to talk about any other aspects of programming language design.

I'm happy to give Wombat-related talks in Australia. I did give one last year at the Melbourne FP meetup: https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Melbourne-Functional-User-Group-MFUG/events/zhtdllywkbjb/. An attendee was disappointed that there was no code to play with. That inspired me to write the current compiler which now correctly runs some programs, such as factorial:

%/include wombat.wh

    `fact = { case $:Nat of [
                { $ = 0; 1}
                { $ = `n; n*fact(n-1) } # n-1 fails if n==0
              ]
            };
    print (fact 4)

And it can even run simple programs backwards, though not factorial. Check it out from github: https://github.com/rks987/marsupial. (cd src; python3 compiler.py test.w)