PAKCS(1)

📦 version 3.3.0, in ubuntu jammy

✨ PAKCS ✨

aka the Portland Aachen Kiel Curry System — that's the PAKCS(1) page, Curry Compiler edition, bestie. Buckle up, this one's short and sweet and I'm obsessed with it. 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

pakcs — the Portland Aachen Kiel Curry System 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pakcs [OPTIONS]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so PAKCS is an implementation of the functional logic language Curry (over at http://currry-language.org) and the way it works is chef's kiss — it compiles Curry programs into Prolog programs. Iconic behaviour, no notes. 💅

If you want the full tea, the deets live at https://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~pakcs/ 🌈

And the pakcs command either invokes the interactive environment to compile and run Curry programs. That's it, that's the whole job. Main character energy fr fr 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

To slide into the interactive environment:

pakcs <options> [ -- <run-time arguments>]

with options: 👇

  • --h, --help, -? — shows you this message and then dips. show this message and quit ✌️
  • -V, --version — spills the version and quits 📢
  • --compiler-name — tells you the compiler name, which is literally "pakcs", and then quits 🫶
  • --numeric-version — shows the compiler version number and quits 🔢
  • --base-version — shows you the version of the base libraries and quits 📚
  • -q, --quiet — work silently 🤫 (shy queen behaviour)
  • --nocypm — do not invoke "cypm" to compute the package load path 🙈
  • --noreadline — do not use input line editing via the command "rlwrap" ⌨️
  • -D<prop>=val — define the pakcsrc property prop as val 💫

And then there's this little extra that's listed right there with the options, so here it is, verbatim-ish but cute:

:<cmd> <args>

— that's the command of the PAKCS environment 💜

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This manual page has been written by Michael Hanus and converted to nroff format by Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>. It was written for the Debian project initially, but may also be used by others. Slay, honestly. 🫶

lowkey a whole legend: written for Debian, then just casually let everyone else use it too. generous queen. 👑

okay bye bestie, go compile some Curry 💖

— this is version 2.0.2, dated December 2018, and it's the PAKCS(1) manual page. mwah 💋

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