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I want to code a program that given a paragraph of text (letters and numbers), it formats it in a custom way, totally different from the initial source.
The thing I'm wondering is which programming language to use to make it easier to code.
Right now I know some Lua, VB, C and a little less of Python and Java, but I wouldn't mind using other monogramming languages if its easy enough to code it.
If it is okay for you to use a non-mainstream language, have a look at Unicon. It is a successor of SNOBOL, the grandfather of all string processing languages.
If you prefer a mainstream language, I would recommend Python.
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I am getting a little in to c++/qt programming and used to program with Ada at university. One thing I really miss are the subtypes you can create in Ada.
For example you would subtype integer to currency and to weight. And Ada would make sure that you wouldn't assign currency variables to weight variables. Both are basically integers with all functionality intact. You just can't assign them. Is there something like this in any major language? I really miss this.
An example in C++ would be much appreciated. Super complex class constructions and template tinkering does not count :).
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Out of curiosity, what programming languages do not have an "If" statement?
First language that somehow operates completely without
an If Then control structure gets the answer.
-1 given to languages no one has actually heard of (eg: "My friend made a programming language in college called 'EwoK' that used a 'when' statement instead...")
Most assembly languages do not have an if statement, instead, they branch or jump to another location based on the result of a logical comparison or processor flag check.
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The Go language is a new programming language from Google. It is still in an experimental phase and I am having trouble figuring out how stable it is. What sort of projects would you risk using Go for?
As you said, it is still an experimental programming language so I would only use it for experimental projects, for now. The implementation is still young but more importantly the ecosystem around it is also not very mature. In other words you'll probably have a hard time finding frameworks and libraries to help speed up your development and may end up needing to code a lot more than if you had chosen a more mature language.
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Which programming languages have a small number of keywords and/or a limited syntax?
(PS. Please list languages that get real world usage, rather than esoteric languages.)
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Smalltalk-80 only six "keywords" are reserved in Smalltalk: true, false, nil, self, super, and thisContext
I'd say that the most minimalistic language that is still in use today would be, lambda calculus, but I seriously doubt that could be called a programming language. LISP-family, and Python are among the most widely used languages with less instructions. If you are into expert systems CLIPS is also used for research and game dev. and it contains very few instructions (it is based on logic)
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What is the most minimal functional programming language?
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There's this programming language called Med-PC that works with animal behavior. I'm trying to learn a bit about it, but i can't seem to find any kind of books or material about it.
I've "google it" but all i seem to find are some references about it and a PDF explaining the installing of the program itself and sensors(for the experiments), not actual programming instructions.
I'm looking for some kind of guidance, documents or books, some kind of reference where i can improve and learn about this language, or if it is based on some other language. I just need some reference about it.
So i've resorted to StackOverFlow to see if anybody has worked, knows about it or can point me some links/books about it.
The Med-PC program itself comes with a programming manual that teaches the language. Alternatively, it's based off of the Pascal programming language and it accepts inline pascal code.