Well right now the project name is Yanoopl (yet another object-oriented programming language), but for the name, the misspelling was intentional

The language will be compiled until I figure out how to add some sort of debugging system like Visual Studio and its breakpoints (because I'd imagine there's some interpreting there.)

I don't think this will be dropped. It will slow down when school starts and pick up on breaks, but I think this is something that will definitely help with colleges and jobs in the future lol. Plus this is something I've been meaning to do for a while, and now I know how.

I'm not on a computer now, but I'll look at Haskell and your language when I am.

This has nothing to do with the calculator lol

EDIT: Damnit, wrong forum... Can someone move this? (To here)

Thank you!

Until I get some syntax down, really the only thing I can work on is the environment and maybe some compiling

Lol, sorry about that fredkin.

Anywho, I've added some beginning syntax to start things off.

Umm. A couple of things. I think you should make strings be able to be in single our double quotes, just because so many people are so used to that. Also, instead of the @ symbol, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use escape characters ("\n"=newline "\t"=tab "\\"=\ "\0"=null "\""=" "\'"=' etc.)
They are used for every computer language I've seen. (Python, Java, C++, C, Groovy, C#, Javascript, PHP, etc.)

Agreed. I think the C style of quotes, where single quotes are for a single character, literally replacing it in the program with the ASCII constant, and double quotes for strings, works better, rather than not differentiating between the two, though.

Umm. A couple of things. I think you should make strings be able to be in single our double quotes, just because so many people are so used to that. Also, instead of the @ symbol, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use escape characters ("\n"=newline "\t"=tab "\\"=\ "\0"=null "\""=" "\'"=' etc.)
They are used for every computer language I've seen. (Python, Java, C++, C, Groovy, C#, Javascript, PHP, etc.)
Finally, methods can return a value. If they don't want to, then the return type is void.

Going in order:
-I suppose I could use both, but it's just hitting the key associated with both once easier quicker than holding shift then hitting it? (Basically, isn't it easier quicker to just type a ' than a ")
-I'll use the escape character for the single quote, but I had already planned to implement it for other characters like tab, line feed, etc.
-I've never seen something like "private void something() { /*code*/; return void; }". To me, methods and functions are different. "private void" would be a method, and "private <any type other than void>" would be a function.

Agreed. I think the C style of quotes, where single quotes are for a single character, literally replacing it in the program with the ASCII constant, and double quotes for strings, works better, rather than not differentiating between the two, though.

But honestly, how often do you use a char literal? (I'm not being a smart-ass, I really want to know ) I might implement the char type for shiggles, but I don't even know how often it's used.

I think single line comments using "//" would be nice. I know I usually just use that for all my commenting.

You seem to use a lot of brackets, what if things like arguments were separated by brackets instead of commas, say:

Code: [Select]

MyFunc([arg1][arg2][arg3])

{{or}}

int [var1][var2][var3];

{{or even}}

int array1[5] = [[1][2][3][4][5]];

{{[] == null}}



Well, when I wrote something like "([arguments])", I meant that the "arguments" part was optional, but I like that idea . The only thing I'd change would be the array part. It's going to be like VB (without the ability to change index numbers ), so it would be "int array1(5) = ([1][2][3][4][5]);" I'll also put in single line comments with "//".

Umm. A couple of things. I think you should make strings be able to be in single our double quotes, just because so many people are so used to that. Also, instead of the @ symbol, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE use escape characters ("\n"=newline "\t"=tab "\\"=\ "\0"=null "\""=" "\'"=' etc.)
They are used for every computer language I've seen. (Python, Java, C++, C, Groovy, C#, Javascript, PHP, etc.)
Finally, methods can return a value. If they don't want to, then the return type is void.

^ agreed with all of that

Since is is probably intended to be a bit higher level of a language than C/C++, can ENUMS be composed of algebraic data types instead of just aliases for numbers?

Another thing: the subroutine thing has little point if it *takes* arguments but doesn't return anything.  The function thing is on the right path, though I think you should just stick with the function thing but call it a sub instead (so that way if you in the future decide to add real functional aspects to the language, you don't have to completely re-invent everything)

Also, having something like "var" for declaration of any type and "string" for declaration of a string is a bit mixed up, since if you're going to have a var declaration you should just make it solely "var" or make them type in the type of the declared variable beforehand (the latter is like most statically typed languages, the former is more like dynamic declaration because a variable is never bound to a declared type)

Also, if this is an object oriented programming language, classes are a *must* for any initial release.  Without classes, it's not real object oriented programming, it's more of a struct-defined language, with no firm backbone for objects and no way for users to declare their own slew of object frameworks.