C (Cbang) - A system oriented programming language

Post by kabdib » Wed, May 09, 2012, 4:48 PM UTC

phillmv wrote: post #11

marcusf wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like what you're looking for is the original Bash source code, circa 1977, for example [1]: LOCAL STRING copyto(endch) REG CHAR endch; { REG CHAR c; WHILE (c=getch(endch))!=endch ANDF c DO pushstak(c|quote) OD zerostak(); IF c!=endch THEN error(badsub) FI } Applicable macros if you want to give your code that classic ALGOL 68 smell in [2]. [1] http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/... [2]…

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

Post by evincarofautumn » Wed, May 09, 2012, 5:11 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #13

dmpk2k wrote: post #6

How about a few more default data structures, like resizable arrays or hashes? I find the biggest bump in my productivity in most other languages is that those two things are there already.

The problem is dynamic memory allocation. It's actually one of the gripes I have with the "rust" language [1]. As a C coder I find it hard to take seriously a language that don't let me customize memory allocation easily. It's not impossible to do right though, C++ has "allocators" parameter templates to do exactly that (there's a default implementation that you can "override" with a custom class). [1] https://news.y…

Post by evincarofautumn » Wed, May 09, 2012, 5:14 PM UTC

eduadecastro wrote: post #28

I guess its time I made my own language... everybody's doing it!

Post by Arelius » Wed, May 09, 2012, 5:21 PM UTC

0xABADC0DA wrote: post #34

kibwen wrote: post #3

I think that languages that are a just thin shell on top of C (as opposed to languages that merely target C, e.g. Chicken Scheme) might have some potential. I'll call this coffeescriptification --still eagerly awaiting the first transpiled language that does nothing but remove C's braces and semicolons. If someone doesn't do it by next April Fools, I certainly will (I already have the name in mind: Glee (the italics…

One thing often overlooked in language design is the filename. It's 2012, why are languages still stuck with IBM-era filename extentions when they could use unicode?! For instance: Rust: filename.ℛ Java: filename.☕ Glee: filename.☺ Isn't that just so much clearer and nicer-looking than ".rs" or ".java" or ".g"? It's really the fine aesthetic points like this that can make or break a language.

Post by kibwen » Wed, May 09, 2012, 5:25 PM UTC

0xABADC0DA wrote: post #34

kibwen wrote: post #3

I think that languages that are a just thin shell on top of C (as opposed to languages that merely target C, e.g. Chicken Scheme) might have some potential. I'll call this coffeescriptification --still eagerly awaiting the first transpiled language that does nothing but remove C's braces and semicolons. If someone doesn't do it by next April Fools, I certainly will (I already have the name in mind: Glee (the italics…

One thing often overlooked in language design is the filename. It's 2012, why are languages still stuck with IBM-era filename extentions when they could use unicode?! For instance: Rust: filename.ℛ Java: filename.☕ Glee: filename.☺ Isn't that just so much clearer and nicer-looking than ".rs" or ".java" or ".g"? It's really the fine aesthetic points like this that can make or break a language.