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On one of those Simtel CDs I found Jorf. (Josephine's Recipe Filer). It was a OO language, with an interpreter for DOS or Windows, and it supported stuff that was really advanced for the time, and it made my coding a lot simpler.
Out of nostalgy, I downloaded a copy (yes, it is still there), and ran it in DosBOX (yes, it still works), to check if it was as good as I remembered.
You know what? It is.
In fact, if it had come out 2 or three years later, and as free software instead of shareware... I think it would have been big.
Here are some highlights og the language:
OOP
Has integrated windowing toolkit (for DOS and Windows)
It had an interactive hypertext/windowing tutorial written in itself. In 1993.
It looks like a cousin of Python. A freaky cousin, though.
-Comments start with |
-Strings limited with single or double quotes
-Automatic type conversions
-Intentation controls flow :-)
-No declared data types
-Integrated editor and debugger
The article author's native language seems to not be English, but it's a fun little piece on a language that might have been.
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Monday October 19 2015, @02:29PM
"syntax is more important that it should be" is like saying "grammar is more important than it should be".
Grammar is important because it is how we make sense of language. Poor grammar obfuscates meaning. Programming Languages with messy or vague syntax are difficult to read. Syntax was ultimately the downfall of Perl, languages with easier to understand syntax came along and replaced it. Instead of creating a flexible language for everyone, Perl became self-obfuscating.
I suppose it is no coincidence that I am particular about both grammar and code formatting.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 19 2015, @03:56PM
Poor grammar obfuscates meaning.
Yes, but what is "poor grammar" to one person may be perfectly clear to someone else.