No side effects, no surprises.

  1. Welcome
    1. What is the V language?
    2. What problem does this solve?
    3. “Working knowledge” is a critical dependency
    4. System documentation through executable rulebooks
    5. Usage scenarios
  2. Traits
    1. No side effects
    2. Declarative statements
    3. Objects
    4. Syntactic rules
    5. Sample
  3. Interpreter
    1. Language vs. Interpreter
    2. Rulebooks
    3. VLI Architecture
    4. Processing flow
    5. Object scope
    6. Object composer
    7. Dependency tree
    8. Resource evaluator
    9. Variable substitution
    10. Rule validator
    11. Trip-point emitter
  4. Installation
    1. Prerequisites
    2. Download
    3. Setup
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The V Language

The V language is a domain-specific language for capturing the operational values of a host computer's resources and for checking their validity against user-defined rules.

V is nullipotent, declarative, and interpreted. V operates on objects which describe host resource variables and user-defined rules. Objects are dynamically typed and may belong to namespaces. V is extensible by design: its interpreter can discover and use third-party plugin modules.

V is well suited to helping system administrators with monitoring computer systems safely and without side effects.