Grego - An very simple stacker lang

wilsonSants · March 31, 2025, 9:52am

This is my first language in racket, it's called grego. It's very simple and silly, you type an greek letter and it returns the letter name in greek. I based it on the Stacker language we learned in Beautiful Racket.
This could be useful if you want to implement languages from that book, but without using the 'br' language

damien_mattei · April 2, 2025, 6:28pm

Bonjour @wilsonSants ,

it is interesting, just a question,because i'm a (modern) greek learner (having a few ancestors from Greece) but beginner. Isn't it a problem with β :

github.com/WilsonSant/grego

parser.rkt

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          (define-struct letra
            ([maiusculo : Char] [minusculo : Char] [nome : String]))
          
          (: string->letra (-> String String String letra))
          (define (string->letra maiusculo minusculo nome)
            (make-letra (string-ref maiusculo 0) (string-ref minusculo 0) nome))
          
          (define alfabeto
            (list (string->letra "Α" "α" "άλφα")
                  (string->letra "Β" "β" "βήτασ")
                  (string->letra "Γ" "γ" "γάμμα")
                  (string->letra "Δ" "δ" "δέλτα")
                  (string->letra "Ε" "ε" "έψιλο")
                  (string->letra "Ζ" "ζ" "ζήτα")
                  (string->letra "Η" "η" "και")
                  (string->letra "Θ" "θ" "θήτα")
                  (string->letra "Ι" "ι" "ιώτα")
                  (string->letra "Κ" "κ" "κάπα")
                  (string->letra "Λ" "λ" "λάμδα")
                  (string->letra "Μ" "μ" "μι")

i would have put βήτα instead βήτασ.

see: βήτα - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

i can not find a lot of reference for βήτασ unless perheaps as family name (with a B upper case)

or something more argotic :

but in my favorite youtube list i have also VITAS singer and i just mention it because in cyrillic alphabet (coming from greek one) B can be pronounced V which is very confusing if you learn both Greek and Russian

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