Hello! Today we are introducing a brand new language! This brand new language is very easy to understand and it takes many different features and ideas from different languages making it easy to understand yet still being powerful! We are sure you will have an amazing experience try this language, and transitioning from and to this language will not be a problem! But, what is this language called?
Introducing CookeyLang. CookeyLang is a fastinterpretedgeneral-purposedynamicclass-basedstrong language for beginners, but advanced users can use it as well!
CookeyLang was created for the 2020 language jam, but it will not stop there! We already have our very own GitHub repository and docs! We also plan to rewrite in C++ and maybe even a VM! Our plan is to add and update CookeyLang to make it even better! CookeyLang is a great language for beginners to learn!
Purposes
CookeyLang is meant as a general-purpose language for beginners. It promotes good coding practices and is similar to C, JS, C#, and Python for an easy transition to and from the languages. It also contains many new features of its own and new takes on many of the old features of other languages. It aims to solve the problem of python being too "austere" and JavaScript being too "sloppy". It also fixes the problem of semicolons by requiring them throughout the code.
Examples
Fibonacci
function fibonacci(num) {
if (num <= 1) ret 1;
ret fibonacci(num - 1) + fibonacci(num - 2);
}
for (var i = 0; i < 20; i ++) {
printLine(fibonacci(i));
}
99 bottles of beer
function bottle(num) {
ret num + " of bottles of beer on a wall, " + num + " of bottles of beer on a wall.";
}
function takeOneDown(num) {
ret "Take one down, pass it around, " + num + " bottles of beer on the wall.";
}
var bottles = 100;
function init(bottles) {
if (bottles > 0) {
printLine(bottle(bottles));
bottles --;
printLine(takeOneDown(bottles));
init(bottles);
} el {
printLine("No more bottles!");
}
}
init(bottles);
@Highwayman Well, at least I'm not forcing a paradigm. And no, there are some rules obviously, but things aren't as strict. There's a balance point between insane amounts of syntax and insane lack thereof — when you get in the middle (which I'm not claiming to have done, in fact I'm almost sure I haven't) then you end up with a nice "clean" language.
@Coder100 Hmm, wonder why I'm not a big Rust fan :D
Ok jokes aside, I think that it's a good idea which should be scaled back. Rust should warn you when you try to do things that might affect the outcome of your code, not the style. However, many Rust warnings actually fill this role, so I'd argue that it's not entirely forcing a paradigm.
I use calmelCase and snek_case in python, also pascal case I like having it be unpredictable, also no spaces or underscores or caps functions just a bunch of words squished together :) @Coder100 useRandom_UnpridictableFunctionstyling()
CookeyLang
Hello! Today we are introducing a brand new language! This brand new language is very easy to understand and it takes many different features and ideas from different languages making it easy to understand yet still being powerful! We are sure you will have an amazing experience try this language, and transitioning from and to this language will not be a problem! But, what is this language called?
Introducing CookeyLang. CookeyLang is a fast interpreted general-purpose dynamic class-based strong language for beginners, but advanced users can use it as well!
Credits
Language
Design
Beta-Testers
About
CookeyLang was created for the 2020 language jam, but it will not stop there! We already have our very own GitHub repository and docs! We also plan to rewrite in C++ and maybe even a VM! Our plan is to add and update CookeyLang to make it even better! CookeyLang is a great language for beginners to learn!
Purposes
CookeyLang is meant as a general-purpose language for beginners. It promotes good coding practices and is similar to C, JS, C#, and Python for an easy transition to and from the languages. It also contains many new features of its own and new takes on many of the old features of other languages. It aims to solve the problem of python being too "austere" and JavaScript being too "sloppy". It also fixes the problem of semicolons by requiring them throughout the code.
Examples
Fibonacci
99 bottles of beer
Links
Documentation
NPM
Github
Repl.it
Tests
CookeyLang Make
Discord
Usage
Easy as that!
You can also get a pretty welcome screen.
Closing
I hope you enjoyed this language as much as we did making it!
Perfection;
@Highwayman lol ikr
XP @JDOG787
Why have semicolons when you could have completely fluid syntax, requiring no boundaries between statements? :D
Hm... idk I guess it’s just cause I’m used to semicolons lol
@fuzzyastrocat
xDDDD @Highwayman
oh yeah btw soon we will be adding warnings so we force camel_case as well @Highwayman
@fuzzyastrocat semicolons taste good nom nom
@Coder100 You have just irked me 9999%
t h a t' s
s n e k
c a s e
(no hard feelings, iz joke)
As for semicolons, exactly! I save my semicolons for eating, not for coding :D (hint hint: i described Curta in my above post)
xDDD that was the point of the joke @fuzzyastrocat
@Coder100 Oh, I no get joke then. What was it in reference of? (JS?)
Bruh lol. Why for a paradigm? @Coder100
um it's irony, you see, camelCaseLooksLikeThis but I used its enemy, pythons_snake_case @fuzzyastrocat
? @Highwayman
@Coder100 Ah ok. I just didn't get the joke since I was expecting a more direct connection to the topic of this thread :D
? @Highwayman
lmao @fuzzyastrocat
:D @Coder100
Metasmiley - the return
coming to a theater near you
@Coder100 , @fuzzyastrocat
*force
@Highwayman Ah ok. I agree completely.
@fuzzyastrocat it’s funny because your language sounds like it’s going to the Max in the opposite direction (do anything it’s accepted)
@Highwayman Well, at least I'm not forcing a paradigm. And no, there are some rules obviously, but things aren't as strict. There's a balance point between insane amounts of syntax and insane lack thereof — when you get in the middle (which I'm not claiming to have done, in fact I'm almost sure I haven't) then you end up with a nice "clean" language.
Ye exactly that..
@fuzzyastrocat
what @Highwayman
like your having them have to use a certain naming convention. @Coder100
rust "forces" a paradigm by throwing warnings @fuzzyastrocat
personally that is a great idea I think, and then it can be turned off by doing "--no-var-warn" @fuzzyastrocat
@Coder100 Hmm, wonder why I'm not a big Rust fan :D
Ok jokes aside, I think that it's a good idea which should be scaled back. Rust should warn you when you try to do things that might affect the outcome of your code, not the style. However, many Rust warnings actually fill this role, so I'd argue that it's not entirely forcing a paradigm.
Oof @Coder100
I use calmelCase and snek_case in python, also pascal case I like having it be unpredictable, also no spaces or underscores or caps functions just a bunch of words squished together :) @Coder100
useRandom_UnpridictableFunctionstyling()
@Highwayman s;e;m;i;;c;o;l;o;n;
no python @fuzzyastrocat
@RohilPatel No, Python is actually not fluid. Python simply replaces the semicolon with the newline:
is perfectly valid but
is not. However, in Curta you can separate statements any way you like, so if the above statements were valid Curta both would be allowed.