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HolyC is great -- default arguments and built-in exception handling are big pluses over C. There are a few shortcomings, though, such as the lack of short-circu

HolyC is great -- default arguments and built-in exception handling are big pluses over C. There are a few shortcomings, though, such as the lack of short-circuiting logical operators and some unfortunate behavior related to variable declarations within nested scopes (just avoid doing that IMO).

zaarn 9y ago
The issues can probably be fixed by writing a bit of a better compiler, HolyC2 maybe?
- breakingcups 9y ago
  Alternatively, HolyC++ or HolyD.
  - zaarn 9y ago
    Ideally a HolyC++ would be able to compile normal HolyC without any changes to the source while also adding new stuff and while not being C++ in the process. That all would be very neat.
  - snvzz 9y ago
    More like unholy.
  - mmjaa 9y ago
    HolyMoly, duh.
- bagnalla 9y ago
  I've thought about using this Lisp interpreter to bootstrap a compiler for a new language, probably targeting HolyC. If someone were to write some decent lexer/parser generator tools in HolyC it would go a long way in making something like that possible.
- dawnbreez 9y ago
  Call it Protestant.
andyjohnson0 9y ago
> lack of short-circuiting logical operators I'm curious about the reason for this - does anyone know why they were implemented this way?
- otakucode 9y ago
  Probably because God commanded it.
  - bfuller 9y ago
    You are being downvoted but many many times have I asked a question regarding templeos and that is the actual answer