btw, https://bitbucket.org/jmcgrew/zilf/wiki/Home … is the best-supported open-source ZIL compiler that I know of. I don't know whether it's rated to compile this historical source, but someone must be trying it already.
For people who are getting whiplash: This is ZIL, which is a derivative of MDL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDL_(programming_language) … and which itself is a derivative of LISP. All you Rust and Node folks are in for a whitewater rafting ride.
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The Lisp nature of ZIL evaporates at compile time, sadly... I think Cornerstone's language and VM were closer to the real deal, but so far they're unexplored.
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But it's very much an imperative language, for all the functional syntax. An odd beast. I think they were going for an easiest-way-to-convert their existing codebase.
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