Would love to see this language on codingame.com. Such a fun language to program in. It is strongly typed, but with type inferencing to keep it terse. I love the use of optionals to reduce run time errors. Not to mention powerful structs, enums, and pattern matching.
I know it’s not already on codingame because it can’t be compiled on linux. Apple announced plans to contribute ports to linux around the launch of Swift 2.0. Hopefully we can see support for it on codingame then.
Julia is becoming more and more popular in the dynamic language and scientific computing community. It’s only a matter of time until it is a very widely used programming language.
Common Lisp was already suggested by I’m going to elaborate.
I was actually very disappointed when I didn’t find a single language with simple syntax like Tcl, Common Lisp or Scheme (or Racket) while there are quite a few even less known languages like Dart, Groovy or OCaml. I’m going to make my pick and vote for Common Lisp.
Listing just the features missing in other languges you have:
Nice and simple prefix syntax.
Nice and simple syntax macros. I’m aware a few other languages like Scala have them too but they all look like kludges due to complex infix syntax.
Strong but dynamic type system. Yes, it shares it with E.g. Ruby and Python and it’s (IMO) the best trade-off between safety and ease of use unless you can infer all types statically like Haskell does.
Both lexically-scoped and dynamically-scoped variables. No other language you support (I think) even has dynamiclly-scoped variables.
Runtime interactive debugger… not sure if you can make it work or not but…
The signal-restart error handling system will work regardless even if you can’t support interactive features.
So pick a supported implementation like CCL, SBCL or CLisp. I’d be glad to help you out.
Also @Jabberwockey SBCL is not a dialect of CL. CL has no dialects. SBCL is an implementation of CL.
EDIT: After solving a few puzzles three more points.
CL is one of the few multiparadigm languages with Metaprogramming, FP, Structured programming and OOP all supported on a pretty good level and easy to mix. Not as good as specialised languages but still. Also its OOP system CLOS has enough unique ideas behind it.
All puzzles I saw yet have a main loop and CL’s LOOP macro is good for this.
After solving the first two puzzles I couldn’t help but suggest Tcl too. It’s type system (or lack of it) would make input/output too easy and it generally… feels like the best langauge to solve these few first puzzles in. Bash is good too but it has too many corner-cases and, again, complex syntax.
EDIT: Of course I’d be glad to help with adding Tcl support too.
You could try Clojure, that’s a Lisp language. But it’s not just another language, it has a very specific rationale (no uncontrolled mutation) that sets it appart from Common Lisp and has a lot of consequences.
It’s obviously not as mature as Common Lisp.
Clojure has dynamic variables but they are cumbersome, because most functions return lazy lists and that doesn’t work well together.
Sadly, Codingame doesn’t give you access to the Repl.
No signal-restart error handling system, only throw-catch error handling.
Perl6 is sufficiently different from Perl5 as Perl6 drops the previous reverse compatibility to Perls 0 through 5 in its functionality. With that compatibility being removed with the simple line, “use v6;”. It was figured that compatibility to previous Perls such as the ones that were terrible ideas Perl 4 and Perl 0 was making the language much harder to manage and keep track of it. Much of the updates and moving forward with Perl 6 has been via a washcycle way of handling stuff (as compared to the waterfall style)
Possible cons for Perl 6 is that the bicycle shed is the exact wrong colour. I don’t know if they are trying to attract robots and kittens with that colour of the bicycle shed… but seriously… how do they handle that bicycle shed being that darn colour?
I kind of was thinking Perl 6 was already an option… and tend to be disappointed for the one hundredth time I don’t see it up.
I’d also suggest we offer Perl 0… but Larry Wall does not seem willing to make Perl 0 available to the general public and world. Clearly he is hiding it, because it is the secret to enlightenment and godhood–and he doesn’t want other gods to compete with him.
OpenCOBOL or GnuCOBOL, please
i just found a job where COBOL is heavily used, Micro Focus dialect
so i was researching the possibilities, and found this open-source dialect
