Much like lisp is often considered a list based programming language what languages are considered map based?
I remember reading about one a few years back, but can not longer find a reference to it. It looked something like:
[if:test then:<code> else:<more code>]
edit: and more where quoted code blocks which would be conditional evaluated. In this fashion if/cond and others would not be special form as they are in lisp/scheme.
The syntax above is supposed to be map/dictionary like just like lisp's syntax is list like.
if would be a key with the value of test.
then would be a key with the value of .
...
That looks very much like MISC, a lazy Lisp with maps instead of lists as the fundamental datatype. (It's also lazy, has deep integration of metadata (similar to Clojure) and a couple of other things, but it is still very much a Lisp: functional, homoiconic, macros, implemented as a metacircular interpreter, all the good stuff.)
Here's some code samples from the blog:
[if [> 5 10] then:[+ 5 10] else:[- 5 10]]
[let '[square:[lambda '[x:1] '[* x x]]]
'[square 12]
]
[take 20 [numbers from:0]]
Unfortunately, it seems that besides two blog articles from long ago, there's not much going on anymore.