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> other than "it's just for me" — and that's probably good enough I love this sentiment, and I'm glad you made this! I love reading different syntaxes for prog

> other than "it's just for me" — and that's probably good enough I love this sentiment, and I'm glad you made this! I love reading different syntaxes for programming languages. You should be proud. Writing programming languages is _hard_. I made an abstract programming language in 2023 (https://visionscript.dev https://visionscript.dev). The language still needs _a lot_ of work and some bugs fixed. With that said, I had so much fun making it.

pona-a 3y ago
VisionScript looks so neat! I always wanted some wrapper around OpenCV as high level as Mathemathica. I see you've even borrowed their syntax. Though wouldn't it have been nicer as just a library for any functional language for more interesting use-cases like mapping an image of a bar chart to CSV or estimating coefficient of restitution of a bouncy ball? That's one problem I always had with DSLs, as expressive as they can be for their domain, sooner or later you find yourself having to implement all the features of a modern high level language...
- zerojames 3y ago
  Thank you! The syntax was inspired by Mathematica. I like the idea of using verbs to describe actions that are built into the language. I had three main motivations for the project: 1. Learn how to write a programming language; 2. Explore the extent to which I could use a new language to help people learn computer vision, and; 3. Learn more about computer vision. The goal was to create a language that is more suited for beginners, with the intent that you can build a vocabulary you can use to describe computer vision and programming more broadly. The extent to which this is/was achieved is unknown since I'd need to do a lot more work to get it in the hands of new developers, but nonetheless I enjoyed thinking and reading about this. > sooner or later you find yourself having to implement all the features of a modern high level language A friend told me "but James, you can just use Python for this!" While that is true, there is definitely something to be said about _how_ you do something, as well as what you can and can't do. How a language works and what it can and can't do is in the hands of the language designer; these decisions are technically interesting to make.
news_to_me 3y ago
Thanks, that means a lot! > I made an abstract programming language in 2023 This is super cool. The block editor is especially impressive.
- zerojames 3y ago
  Keep making cool things :)

pona-a 3y ago

VisionScript looks so neat! I always wanted some wrapper around OpenCV as high level as Mathemathica. I see you've even borrowed their syntax. Though wouldn't it have been nicer as just a library for any functional language for more interesting use-cases like mapping an image of a bar chart to CSV or estimating coefficient of restitution of a bouncy ball? That's one problem I always had with DSLs, as expressive as they can be for their domain, sooner or later you find yourself having to implement all the features of a modern high level language...

zerojames 3y ago
Thank you! The syntax was inspired by Mathematica. I like the idea of using verbs to describe actions that are built into the language. I had three main motivations for the project: 1. Learn how to write a programming language; 2. Explore the extent to which I could use a new language to help people learn computer vision, and; 3. Learn more about computer vision. The goal was to create a language that is more suited for beginners, with the intent that you can build a vocabulary you can use to describe computer vision and programming more broadly. The extent to which this is/was achieved is unknown since I'd need to do a lot more work to get it in the hands of new developers, but nonetheless I enjoyed thinking and reading about this. > sooner or later you find yourself having to implement all the features of a modern high level language A friend told me "but James, you can just use Python for this!" While that is true, there is definitely something to be said about _how_ you do something, as well as what you can and can't do. How a language works and what it can and can't do is in the hands of the language designer; these decisions are technically interesting to make.

news_to_me 3y ago

Thanks, that means a lot! > I made an abstract programming language in 2023 This is super cool. The block editor is especially impressive.

zerojames 3y ago
Keep making cool things :)