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Complete fail on the programming language homepage design scorecard. You need an example (ideally more than one) on the very first page.



I don't know. Programming languages are super high dimensional objects that are often used to construct non-trivially sized and scoped projects. For something like that I think you need to take your time, read the manual, and do some r&d to see if it's a fit.

In blorq we have variable assignment:

  var x = 5;
And we have while loops:

  while true {
    x += 1;
  }
And we also have quantum polymorphic tensor hyper operators with optional effects:

  |> ~$~ |] <coherence 0.7 [deflects]> 
It's like, the simple stuff doesn't really tell me anything. And the complex stuff is going to take a lot more than seeing the example to know how I should feel about it.

Cell, I suspect, is in the category of needing at least an afternoon to get started.


> It's like, the simple stuff doesn't really tell me anything.

It tells you loads.

* The basic syntax is C-like but modern (no brackets around the `while` expression). There are alternatives - it could have been lispy or more ML like.

* You can mutate variables.

* You have some weird advanced hieroglyphic features.

You only used 5 lines and you've already told me loads.

Loads of languages get this right. I gave some examples here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37805216

(And another language that gets it completely wrong - AngelScript.)




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