side note: there's a lot code which I have not yet read, so my assumptions may be wrong.
Context and background
This repo is tied to everything that was published by vpri.org and STEPS project.
Here's a handy google search query: site:www.vpri.org filetype:pdf steps.
List of all projects done in VPRI: http://www.vpri.org/writings.php
Goal of the STEPS project
The "STEPS Toward Expressive Programming Systems" project is taking the familiar world of personal computing used by more than a bilion people every day - currently requiring hundreds of milions of lines of code to make and sustain - and substantially recreating it using new programming techniques and "architectures" in dramatically smaller amounts of program code. This is made possible by new advances in design, programming, programming languages, systems organization, and the use of science to analyze and create models of software artifacts.
List of whitepapers
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link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2007008_steps.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008004_steps08.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2009016_steps09.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010004_steps10.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2011004_steps11.pdf
link to pdf: https://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009011_chns_mng.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009007_COLA_kern.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2010003_PEG.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2004002_croq_men.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008002_jitblt.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009013_cola_actors.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2006001a_colaswp.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2009010_for_avm2.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2008003_experimenting.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2005001_ohshima_kedama.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2012001_kscript.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2011002_lesserphic.pdf
link to pdf: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/rn2010001_programm.pdf
link to pdf: https://www.piumarta.com/software/cola/objmodel2.pdf
List of related projects
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project url: https://piumarta.com/software/cola/
source code: https://piumarta.com/software/cola/idst-20070918/
description: Springboard for investigating new computing paradigms.
small notes: alternative name of the project is idst.
project url: https://piumarta.com/software/maru/
source code: https://github.com/damelang/nile/tree/master/compilers/maru
description: A metacircular s-expression evaluator and compiler.
source code: https://github.com/damelang/nile
description: Revolutionary functional programming language with fluid used-defined syntax.
source code: https://github.com/damelang/gezira
description: 2d vector graphics library written in nile language.
project url: https://piumarta.com/software/peg/
source code: https://piumarta.com/software/peg/peg-0.1.18/
description: recursive-descent parser generators for C
source code: https://github.com/alexwarth/nothing
source code: https://github.com/harc/ohm