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There's a language called SLang inside Goldman Sachs used for their SecuritiesDB, and that's how I read it at first glance even with the dollar sign lol https:/
by Lammy 9mo ago
There's a language called SLang inside Goldman Sachs used for their SecuritiesDB, and that's how I read it at first glance even with the dollar sign lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dubno#SecDB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dubno#SecDB
- dang 9mo agoI wonder what a program written in that language looks like.
- rayxi271828 9mo agoSlang? The IDE looked like Turbo C++ of old (blue, text based interface). Shortcuts are weird, so you need to remap keys to get sane defaults. Probably the most unique feature is that the language supports spaces in identifiers. So you'd have variables like "Option Portfolio Risk" or functions like "Calculate Estimated PnL". Visually obviously different from Python, but it gave me Pythonic vibes. It's also nice that it supports preconditions, so you can specify the valid range of arguments etc. It has some kind of OOP support but tbh it felt bolted on (understandably). But the most value adding, IMHO, is the DevEx and deep integration with SecDb. Say what you want about the DOS-like IDE and the old (20+ years old for sure, maybe 30+) language, but you can deploy your code SO easily into production, with guardrails in place. Out of curiosity, I implemented a toy language (thanks to Robert Nystrom's Crafting Interpreters) that supports spaces in identifiers (https://github.com/rayfdj/gaul-lang https://github.com/rayfdj/gaul-lang) as well. Makes for an interesting weekend coding project, and it helps me understand more the tradeoffs that Slang designers must have gone through.
- andrekandre 9mo agofn Calculate Portfolio Risk(Initial Investment, Risk Factor) { let My Very Special Adjustment = 0.95 Initial Investment * Risk Factor * My Very Special Adjustment } that is so cool; this is actually something i've been looking for a long time and jam karet looks interesting; `if input ~= "yes"` made me smile. i also liked the keyword replacement for multiple languages as well, that could be super usefull for children learning programming i'd think!
- rayxi271828 9mo agoThank you for the kind words! I had great fun implementing it. Robert Nystrom is such a hero for writing Crafting Interpreters.
- andrekandre 9mo agoits a big inspiration for me because thats on my list of things to do i tried your repo and it works just as you say; so cool i may introduce it to some acquaintances who have trouble learning programming caused by reading english characters/grammar troubles
- wahern 9mo agoSee also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Lang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Lang (https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/index.html https://www.jedsoft.org/slang/index.html), a (stack-based) scripting language implementing a terminal UI toolkit. Mutt can use use S-Lang instead of ncurses.
- snthpy 9mo agoThat's what I thought too. The $ sign seemed quite appropriate given Goldman's line of business.
- charleszw 9mo agoSee also the Slang shader language, it's a pretty recent development! https://shader-slang.org https://shader-slang.org
- dang 9mo agoWant to submit to HN and email us (hn@ycombinator.com) so we can put it in the SCP? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308)