An Idea

Summary:

An idea occurred to me: what about creating the CodeWorld Reference Language (CWRL)

An Idea

Mapar007 07 Oct 2008 15:00

Hey CW mates!

I'd like to ask you the following:
What if we'd create a new programming language to use as a reference code on this site? I thought that it might be a good idea because of the following reasons:

• People knowing only Perl, for example, might completely not understand z80 Assembly, so a simple reference language mixing other languages might be well.
• I prefer this to pseudocode because it has more structure

The only thing I needed now was the agreement of the community.

\Mapar007

Re: An Idea

Socks 07 Oct 2008 19:31

So, we build a psuedocode.

Something like this?

NewWindow.create();
new Button buttonClick("Click me!");
onClick.buttonClick
{
Text.buttonClick("Clicked!");
}

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/Socks

Re: An Idea

Mapar007 08 Oct 2008 11:53

Yeah, but to make compiling easier (if we're ever going to compile such codes), I was thinking of making the keywords three characters long. Also support for non-OOP programming could be implemented.

CLA = Class
MTD = Method
NUM = Number (double)
IPT = Input
OUT = Output
STR = String
…

But if we only use it as a reference and not really to MAKE programs, this stuff won't be necessary.

\Mapar007

Re: An Idea

The Renegade 08 Oct 2008 18:19

It's a cool idea, indeed, but is this really necessary? I mean the time that would be spended on making a new language could now better be used for improving the threads about existing languages.

Re: An Idea

Socks 08 Oct 2008 20:37

I agree with TR, if we were going to have a compiled language it would likely be easier to use a published one.

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/Socks

Re: An Idea

Mapar007 09 Oct 2008 14:56

Yeah, I gave it a thought and in fact you're right, we'd better use pseudocode.

\Mapar007