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I am looking for things in the vein of the use of run-length encoding in representing arbitrarily large integers in a Haskell-based conlang.

An example might be tree data structure based punctuation in a writing system (Lispy), a language in which sentence ends are signaled not by structure but by an explicit stop word (like a C-style language's semi-colon), or a language in which there are labels (explicitly or implicitly) assigned to each sentence, which can be used to refer to that sentence (assembly or BASIC-like).

Could someone share some examples of how CS ideas are used in conlanging?

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    ‘Haskell-based conlang’? Interesting; I’ve been pondering similar concepts for a while. Do you have any more information I can read about it?
    – bradrn
    Commented Oct 31, 2021 at 4:40
  • The linked question has it: "conlang.stackexchange.com/questions/1395/…"
    – Qaziquza
    Commented Oct 31, 2021 at 4:41
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    Ah, thanks! Just FYI, Leksah has already been used as the name of a Haskell IDE.
    – bradrn
    Commented Oct 31, 2021 at 4:42
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    Also, to answer the question, the major example I’m aware of is the stack-based conlang Fith. But I’d prefer to hold off on making an actual answer until I find some more examples.
    – bradrn
    Commented Oct 31, 2021 at 4:46

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Some examples of conlangs which use CS concepts include

  • Fith, as pointed out to me by @bradrn in the comments of this question. It is a stack-based conlang, similar conceptually to forth, or min. It is spoken by "a race of centaur-like marsupials" known as Fithians.

  • Shallow Fith, which is intended as a human speak-able subset of Fith, devised to allow Fithians and humans to communicate.

  • The conlang from this question, Leksah. It is a functional conlang, inspired by Haskell, which was created for a world-building project. Leksah has functions, which act similarly to verbs, a function application word, and literals, which act somewhat like nouns.

Edit:

I am in the process of creating an as-yet unpublished conlang with a system of pattern matching with pronouns. For example, The red horse is friends with the black dog. The red <third-person pronoun> is much bigger than the black <third-person pronoun>, would mean that

  1. The red horse and black dog are friends.
  2. The red horse is much bigger than the black dog.

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