| ▲ | scScript for Linux(scapplications.com) |
| 31 points by OptionOfT 9 hours ago | 11 comments |
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| ▲ | supriyo-biswas 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| People should really put a few examples on their webpage when they introduce a language, like a hello world, making a http request, writing a ping/pong server, etc. |
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| ▲ | SA9G 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I wanted to write a love note to C... and if you hate it, it is all my fault. |
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| ▲ | kreelman 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It looks interesting. Isn't the same kind of thing available from LLVM? clang -emit-llvm -c main.c -o - | lli
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| ▲ | SA9G 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | You could run C that way... but scScript is a scripting language using C-like syntax with features designed for scripting. For example, it provides dual variadic parameter/arg lists. Turns out having "in" (pass-by-val) and "out" (pass-by-ref) parameters are more pleasant (at least to me) than trying to return N values out of a function (especially since script languages run away from pointers). Perhaps it is a testament to my ignorance, but I am not aware of another language that does this. The difficulty in designing a language is not so much implementing a compiler, but the iterative process of implementing and fine-tuning a given aesthetic... a given flavor as it were and it has to work well. Of course the other side is testing the damn thing... so my hats off to QA! Nevertheless, I am sure good tool users could save a lot of time instead of hand implementing everything, as I would. So thumbs up to LLVM. | | |
| ▲ | panzi 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No other language that does what? Have out parameters? Many have that, even Pascal. | | |
| ▲ | SA9G 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | No (scripting) language with 2 parameter lists, the second all Var (to use the Pascal syntax). I could have included a Var keyword instead to differentiate, but a) that would complicate the variadic nature of scScript parameter lists and b) didn't quite look C-like to my eyes. (Then again I also have two Map functions in there for arrays and dicts.... so I should not claim purity.) (Yes, I stole them from LISP :-) |
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| ▲ | billywhizz 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | i haven't looked at the code yet but i love the website. just how open source project websites should be! ♥ | | |
| ▲ | SA9G 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | May Odin smile upon you :-)
And thanks for not laughing at my art!! |
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| ▲ | Sulfide6416 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The dual in/out parameter idea is interesting. Looking forward to trying it. |
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| ▲ | mofosyne 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Can this trans-compile to C? (And vice versa?) |
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| ▲ | SA9G 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | So you want to generate C code instead of ByteCodes.... and then compile the C? I suppose, if you broke out the runtime memory management (and a few other things) into a library. But I am not sure why you would.... If you want pure speed, then you would rather have it generate machine instructions instead of higher-level ByteCode ops. But you would not be using a scripting language if you want pure speed. Perhaps if you only want a double-arglist variant of C (you must call it scC!) then you could write a front end processor! And by you, I mean not me :-) |
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