Easy language
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I introduced my new language earlier in Roland's Wizard thread, so I thought I could explain it a bit more.
Of course a new language is always seen a bit sceptically by people, and they wonder why is it needed, or what benefits does it bring.
At its first version, Easy is still very simple, and based on Variadic Macros (macros which can take a dynamic amount of parameters), and I hope I can keep it that way, and not need a seperate preprocessor, since it would break some features, like direct compiling in Visual Studio and other compilers, and in other languages too.
Although Easy is not always less to code than C++, BASIC or Pascal, it should be still faster to code with, as you don't have to type characters like "{", "}", "=", "<", ">", ":" and ";", but you always use only "(" and ")". So it's less thinking while coding (or looking up help files and examples), and it should get quite intuitive after writing your first few programs.
Let's compare C++, BlitzMax and Easy code:
C++:
#include "stdio.h"
int main()
{
printf( "Hello World!\n" );
for( int i=1; i<=10; i++ )
{
printf( "%d\n", i );
}
return 0;
}
BlitzMax:
SuperStrict Print "Hello World!" For Local i:Int = 1 To 10 Print i Next
Easy:
#include "easy.h" Begin Print( "Hello World!" LineFeed ) For( Int, i, 1, 10 ) PrintIntLine( i ) End Return( 0 ) End
As you can see, Easy has the least amount of special characters used, and everything is kept simple using a few characters: "(", "," and ")". It's also more readable (round brackets are reader friendly also in mathematics, as they do the thinking for you, when combining multiplication, division, powerization and addition in formulas), especially for persons who don't know the language in question (C++ or BlitzMax).
The line feed handling is still something I'm thinking about, it could end up as: PrintIntLine( i ), or PrintInt( i, LineFeed )
The official Easy web page can be found here:
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