At some point this year I realized I’d almost entirely given up on ever finishing BOOL, and I decided that was okay. The language was always butt ugly, and conflicting design goals combined with a lot of indecision,… it just began to seem pointless, so I decided to stop thinking about it and move on.

But recently I find myself noodling around with the idea of, yes, damn it, finishing it in some form, even if it doesn’t come that close to the original dream (which has proved problematic).

I’d gotten pretty close back in 2016 with Python, so why not?

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