The Language

The ISON language is a functional programming language that lives within the JSON or JSON5 syntax specification. That is, every ISON scripts can be read as a standard JSON file. The ISON syntax only appears in strings within the JSON file.

Contents

• Getting Started
  • Special ISON Statements
  • Values
  • Variables
  • Lists and Dictionaries
  • Functions
  • Strings
• Advanced Features
  • Runtime Variables
  • Including Files
  • Platform Dependent Dictionary
  • Logging & Print Debugging
• Lambda Functions
  • Basic Usage
  • Processing Lambda Arguments
  • Lambdas of Lambdas
  • Dictionary Lambdas
  • List Lambdas
• Lambda Calculus (for geeks)
  • Church Encoding: Booleans
  • Church Encoding: Numerals
  • Church Encoding: Data Structures