Group items tagged

Design Goals The design goal was to make a language with beautiful source code that resembled Shakespeare plays. There are no fancy data or control structures, just basic arithmetic and gotos. You could say we have combined the expressiveness of BASIC with the user-friendliness of assembly language.

Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin.

Compared to other languages (both modern and ancient), English has a comparatively weak lexical structure. Much of the grammatical load of an English sentence is carried by positional cues. A statement such as ``The boy gave the dog the food'' only makes sense because of the convention that the subject precedes the verb, which precedes the indirect object, which precedes the direct object. Changing the order -- ``The food gave the boy the dog'' -- changes the meaning. Most programming languages use similar positional grammatical cues. The operation $maximum = $next is very different in meaning from $next = $maximum. Likewise, the function call push @my_assets, @your_money is not the same as push @your_money, @my_assets.

Compared to other languages (both modern and ancient), English has a comparatively weak lexical structure. Much of the grammatical load of an English sentence is carried by positional cues. A statement such as ``The boy gave the dog the food'' only makes sense because of the convention that the subject precedes the verb, which precedes the indirect object, which precedes the direct object. Changing the order -- ``The food gave the boy the dog'' -- changes the meaning. Most programming languages use similar positional grammatical cues. The operation $maximum = $next is very different in meaning from $next = $maximum. Likewise, the function call push @my_assets, @your_money is not the same as push @your_money, @my_assets.

Syntax Tolerance MQL, which has JSON syntax, is not so hard to write, but sometimes you can make minor syntax mistakes that renders your query invalid. The query editor automatically tries to clean up such syntax errors behind the scene before running the query, so that you can still make mistakes, such as forgetting quotation marks and commas (illustrated in screenshot below), and your query still runs most of the time. You can also tell the query editor to explicitly clean up your query by clicking the Clean Up button. It will quote unquoted strings and property names, insert missing commas, and remove trailing commas. (Tip: the keyboard shortcut Shift-Ctrl-Enter will clean up your query explicitly and then run it.)