The None Programming Language

I really wish more languages picked up S-expressions, because they're easy to machine-generate. I can't count the number of times I've been annoyed at my otherwise favourite languages for not being able to do that.

Re: The None Programming Language

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Post by cf » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 4:27 PM UTC

It's worth mentioning that Terra (http://terralang.org/) is pretty cool on its own terms.

Re: The None Programming Language

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Post by monochromatic » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 4:31 PM UTC

I'm having trouble thinking of a less googleable name for a programming language.

Re: The None Programming Language

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Post by trishume » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 4:34 PM UTC

This is a really neat idea. I'd love to use this but unfortunately there is no documentation and a total of 2 example programs so I have no clue how to actually use it.

My normal approach in this situation is to read the source but the source is completely unreadable since it is meta-bootstrapped with weird internal stuff partly in lua, partly in terra and largely using odd meta-macros in None itself.

Re: The None Programming Language

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Post by hk__2 » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 4:34 PM UTC

monochromatic wrote: post #6

I'm having trouble thinking of a less googleable name for a programming language.

There are a lot of them, e.g: B, C, D, E, R, Go, Io.

Re: The None Programming Language

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Post by sitkack » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 4:35 PM UTC

an_ko wrote: post #4

So it's basically an S-expression-syntax wrapper around Terra? So cool. I really wish more languages picked up S-expressions, because they're easy to machine-generate . I can't count the number of times I've been annoyed at my otherwise favourite languages for not being able to do that.

I like how in NoneLang the file is no longer a unit of abstraction. In that test example, the entire contents of the file is wrapped in an s-expression. This most likely means that entire programs and libraries can be concatenated and still remain valid.

I absolutely love this mixture of a Lisp hosted on Terra so it can take advantage of the optional static typing.

If someone wanted to do something similar for Python they could use Hy and MyPy (would need LLVM backend).

Re: The None Programming Language

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Post by XCSme » Sun, Jul 19, 2015, 4:48 PM UTC

I really couldn't go past the title "The Best Programming Language is None". Either the wiki isn't taking the language seriously or someone is really over confident. Who knows, it may be, but stating that when almost no one uses the language is certainly not the way to go.