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# Modal
Modal is a language based a model of computation that uses pattern matching and replacement to rewrite trees.
All Modal code is represented as a series of rules applied to a given tree, formatted textually as tokens delimited with parenthesis, which gets continually modified until no rules match any given part of the tree.
A pattern/replacement can be:
A token: foo, bar, baz
A variable: ?foo, ?bar, ?baz
A sequence of the above: (foo bar baz), (foo ?bar baz), foo (bar (baz))
## Build
```
cc src/modal.c -o bin/modal
```
## Run
```
bin/modal examples/hello.modal
```
## Credits
Created by [wryl](https://wryl.tech/), Immediate Mode Technologies.