ExtraC

Some of the bad parts of Python mixed with C

Every ExtraC program can only contain the following characters:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz \n\t()0123456789,\

All instances of // are replaced by \\, and \\ is the comment symbol. All -s are removed. If it contains anything else, the program terminates with an error. Otherwise, this is normal C, with a lot of #define statements prior to the program execution.

Here's "Hello, World!":

printf(quote(Hello)CHAR CHAR quote(World)CHAR,44,32,33)

How to execute the program:

ruby extrac.rb <filename>

More example programs

Part of ExtraC's standard library is written in ExtraC. Here is range:

function(
    range, returns an array pointer,   \
    takes a number named min,          \
    takes another number named max     \
) does
    arraylen is max minus min plus 1
    new(array, result)
    let the counter be 0
    let the upperbound be arraylen
    until(the counter equals the length(of the result)) do
        setpos(result, counter, min plus counter)
        increment counter
    end
    return the result
end

Pretty readable, right? Well, opinions may differ, but this language should obviously replace Java, C++, and Python.