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Consider Fortress'[1] syntax, its designed to completely typeset and look amazingly readable. [2] has a pretty nice rundown of the syntax, with [3] being a talk

by octo_t 13y ago

Consider Fortress'[1] syntax, its designed to completely typeset and look amazingly readable. [2] has a pretty nice rundown of the syntax, with [3] being a talk at ScalaDays 2012 on what Fortress and Scala can learn from each other syntactically. Fortress has the concept of juxtaposition: things like: 2 3 evaluate to 6, because thats the scientific convention. Integer types are also represented as the mathematical symbol for Ints etc, the language looks beautiful and how you'd write it on the whiteboard. [1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_(programming_language) [2] - http://www.slideshare.net/alexmiller/project-fortress http://www.slideshare.net/alexmiller/project-fortress [3] - http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/scala-days-keynote-3018 http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/scala-days-keynote-301...

pi18n 13y ago
I like the simplicity of the big operators and the ideas on parallelism they were considering. What a huge disappointment that they aren't going to continue work on it.
Too 13y ago
Also take a look on mathematica. It has both a textual and a mathematic representation for everything making it both look good while it cooperates with existing source control tools. It's a shame more languages aren't designed like this. I would like to call it extreme syntax highlighting rather than extreme syntax. Some might argue that 'sum(myArray)' is both more readable and occupy less vertical space than the mathematical sum-operator but when it comes to skimming through large pieces of code having distinctive characters can really help. Where it really shines is when you are editing large matrices that automatically get aligned. Long mathematical expressions involving division is also a good example, here you get fractionals displayed nicely instead of having to nest everything in paranthesis.

by octo_t 13y ago

pi18n 13y ago

I like the simplicity of the big operators and the ideas on parallelism they were considering. What a huge disappointment that they aren't going to continue work on it.

Too 13y ago

Also take a look on mathematica. It has both a textual and a mathematic representation for everything making it both look good while it cooperates with existing source control tools. It's a shame more languages aren't designed like this. I would like to call it extreme syntax highlighting rather than extreme syntax. Some might argue that 'sum(myArray)' is both more readable and occupy less vertical space than the mathematical sum-operator but when it comes to skimming through large pieces of code having distinctive characters can really help. Where it really shines is when you are editing large matrices that automatically get aligned. Long mathematical expressions involving division is also a good example, here you get fractionals displayed nicely instead of having to nest everything in paranthesis.