YAPL - Yet Another Programming Language

YAPL - Yet Another Programming Language

[Adem24]

The World Joint Programming Language Standardization Committe (WJPLSC)
hereby proclaims to the people of the world that a new programming language
is needed for the benefit of the whole mankind in the 21st millenium.
This new language not only differs from existing ones by new features
and paradigms but which also brings real advantage by rigourously 
preventing bad programmer habits by omitting features which are outdated.
In the proposed new joint language for the world (codename YAPL) 
several concepts in use by currently used bad languages have been eliminated.
All UN member countries and organizations are urged to adapt these
recommendations which are for the benefit and safety of the planet and the mankind:

 1) There is no goto statement. 
    Hidden goto's like break- and continue-statements are also omitted.

 2) There is no return statement.
    Instead a result variable can be declared to which the result of a function can be assigned.

 3) There are no automatic type conversions.
    When a subprogram should be used for different types it must be overloaded.

 4) There are no variable length parameter lists.
    Instead it is possible to use arrays as parameters.

 5) There are no default parameters.
    But it is easy to define two subprograms: One with and one without an additional parameter.

 6) There is no special "parameter" called "self" or "this".
    In a procedure the receiving object is declared as formal parameter with a user-defined name.

 7) There is no macro feature since this mechanism is too similar to the subprogram feature.
    Instead subprograms can be used in a more flexible way than in other languages.

 8) There are no reserved words.

 9) There is no conceptual distinction between functions, operators, procedures and statements.

10) The procedure calling mechanism is not based on a concept with an object-message pair
    (An object receives a message). Instead a match is done over a list of objects. 
    This more general (and powerful) mechanism is called multimatch and it includes
    the simple object-message mechanism as special case.


cu l8er
Jesus DeCoder



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Re: YAPL - Yet Another Programming Language

[Gary Scott]

Adem24 wrote:
> The World Joint Programming Language Standardization Committe (WJPLSC)
> hereby proclaims to the people of the world that a new programming language
> is needed for the benefit of the whole mankind in the 21st millenium.
> This new language not only differs from existing ones by new features
> and paradigms but which also brings real advantage by rigourously 
> preventing bad programmer habits by omitting features which are outdated.
> In the proposed new joint language for the world (codename YAPL) 
> several concepts in use by currently used bad languages have been eliminated.
> All UN member countries and organizations are urged to adapt these
> recommendations which are for the benefit and safety of the planet and the mankind:
> 
>  1) There is no goto statement. 
>     Hidden goto's like break- and continue-statements are also omitted.
> 
>  2) There is no return statement.
>     Instead a result variable can be declared to which the result of a function can be assigned.
> 
>  3) There are no automatic type conversions.
>     When a subprogram should be used for different types it must be overloaded.
> 
>  4) There are no variable length parameter lists.
>     Instead it is possible to use arrays as parameters.
> 
>  5) There are no default parameters.
>     But it is easy to define two subprograms: One with and one without an additional parameter.
> 
>  6) There is no special "parameter" called "self" or "this".
>     In a procedure the receiving object is declared as formal parameter with a user-defined name.
> 
>  7) There is no macro feature since this mechanism is too similar to the subprogram feature.
>     Instead subprograms can be used in a more flexible way than in other languages.
> 
>  8) There are no reserved words.
> 
>  9) There is no conceptual distinction between functions, operators, procedures and statements.
> 
> 10) The procedure calling mechanism is not based on a concept with an object-message pair
>     (An object receives a message). Instead a match is done over a list of objects. 
>     This more general (and powerful) mechanism is called multimatch and it includes
>     the simple object-message mechanism as special case.

Hmmmm.

> 
> 
> cu l8er
> Jesus DeCoder
> 
> 
> 
> .
> 


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Re: YAPL - Yet Another Programming Language

[thomas.mertes]

On 29 Jun., 19:27, "Adem24" <ade...@adem24adem24.org.invalid> wrote:
> The World Joint Programming Language Standardization Committe (WJPLSC)
> hereby proclaims to the people of the world that a new programming language
> is needed for the benefit of the whole mankind in the 21st millenium.
Mr. Adem24 (I have no relationship to him) seems to make a
joke at my cost. His 10 points are a list of features of Seed7
mentioned in the manual. See the second list in chapter 1.3:
http://seed7.sourceforge.net/manual/intro.htm
Besides sounding funny I have no idea what the intentions of
Mr Adem24 are. Please accept my apology for sending this
answer to so much groups. I have humor myself, but I will not
uncover my plans to reach world domination with Seed7. :-)

Greetings Thomas Mertes

Seed7 Homepage:  http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.