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README.md

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+# YREA SLS
+*Kyler Olsen*  
+*October 2025*  
+*Snow College*  
+*SE 3250 Survey of Languages Final Project*
+
+Language Code Name: **YREA SLS**  
+Language Specifications: [sls.purplecello.org](https://sls.purplecello.org)
+
+## Assignment Description
+
+**Overview**
+
+In your final project for this course, you will do the following:
+
+- Decide on a modest personal project to complete in a new-to-you
+programming language (during class time, we will randomize the list of
+people in the class and allow languages to be selected uniquely on a
+first-come, first-served basis; be prepared to pick the language you want
+and to advocate for the languages that you don't want).
+- Without using AI generated or suggested code, complete your project in
+your assigned language including automated testing. Find a way to make your
+useful implementation concise and elegant enough that you would be able to
+recreate it reasonably quickly without AI assistance (be prepared to
+demonstrate this ability during a one-on-one interview to ensure credit).
+- Using AI help as desired, create a faithful port of your implementation
+(including tests) to:
+    - Rust
+    - Python
+    - Java (optional, but it might be interesting and userful for your
+    resume)
+    - C# (optional, but it might be interesting)
+    - typescript (optional, but it might be interesting)
+- For each ported implementation, add one addition feature (not present in
+the original or other ports).
+- Prepare a report that describes:
+    - the problem that your project solves and why you are interested in it
+    - a brief description of how the language that you chose and the port
+    languages were or were not each a good fit for the project
+    - three examples of ideas you learned in the course that you leveraged
+    to the implementation in your assigned language elegant, efficient, and
+    concise/maintainable (at least one idea should specifically come from
+    functional programming) -- make sure to be specific and teach the reader
+    something valuable for each of these
+    - at least one struggle that you faced (or that you imagine that others
+    would likely face) for each language implementation, and what you
+    learned from working with the port languages during the porting process.
+- Prepare slides that help you teach the key ideas from your report to the
+class.
+- In a 5-8 minute presentation during the final exam slot, use your slides
+to teach the class and demonstrate your running project including the
+addition port features.
+
+Project Scope
+
+- Please do something that will be fun and interesting for you!
+- Make sure that the project actually solves a problem that you care about.
+(Entertainment counts, but if that is the problem you care about, then make
+sure that you can make something that actually is entertaining!)
+- I'm expecting you to dedicate about 15-30 hours to the entire project
+(including all three implementations and the report/presentation
+preparation). I'm expecting that your initial implmentation should feel
+like about twice the scope of implementing the game of life in PostScript
+or K.
+
+**Languages**
+
+For what it is worth, here are a few resources that rank or compare different
+programming languages in terms of popularity or jobs (but they don't equally
+capture how programming in the languages will give you tools for thinking
+about and solving problems):
+
+- https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2025 
+- https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
+- https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#admired-and-desired
+- https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular-technologies-language-prof
+- https://tjpalmer.github.io/languish/
+- https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/blogs/top-programming-languages/
+- https://github.com/breck7/pldb
+
+Here is the list of programming languages that you will be able to choose from
+for your initial implementation (each language will be chosen by at most one
+student; we will choose during class time on Oct 27):
+
+- **C** Kyler
+
+**Submission**
+
+Submit all material (including report and slides) via github classrooms repo.
+Also, submit your github repo link and the path to the report and slides file
+in the canvas text box for this assignment. The grace period for submission
+ends at 3pm on Monday, Dec 8. Presentations will be 3:30pm - 5:30pm. For full
+credit, you must present and watch the presentations of your classmates.