Scrapscript is a small, pure, functional, content-addressable, network-first programming language. fact 5 . fact = | 0 -> 1 | n -> n * fact (n - 1) My previous post introduced the language a bit and then talked about the interpreter that Chris and I built. This post is about the compiler that Chris and I built. In the beginning, there was an interpreter Writing a simple tree-walking interpreter is a great way to prototype a language implementation. It requires the minimal amount of moving parts ...