VikingScript

Introduction to VikingScript

All programming languages shall be conquered!

Welcome to the ambitious world of VikingScript. VikingScript is a Viking themed language which keeps the essence of many other high-level programming languages like JavaScript. Years of delicate syntax has turned us into barbaric hammer-swinging Vikings!

by Will Ruskin, Zander Zemilak and Dylan McGoldrick

Features

VikingScript has a number of features:

• Weakly typed
• Dynamically typed
• .VK file extension

Example Code

Below is the example code which you can see has a big viking influence!

Print to the console:

• Classic hello, world program
• runes are the letters of an ancient Latin alphabet which the Vikings used

JavaScript	VikingScript
console.log("hello, world")	runes("hello, world")

Variable declaration:

• kalla means declare in Norse
• No semi-colons
• No need to specify the type of the variable

JavaScript	VikingScript
let x = 5	kalla x = 5

Return

hverfa identifier used, meaning "to return" in Norse

Function declaration

• valhalla being the majestic heaven in Asgard where all Vikings strive to be
• No return type needed

JavaScript	VikingScript
function add(x,y) { return x + y }	valhalla add(x, y) { hverfa x + y }

Comments

• The comment is based off a Viking helmet

JavaScript	VikingScript
//Bjorn	}:| Odin
/_ Erik _/	{:| Gorm }:|

Relational Operators

• A barbaric syntax that even Vikings can understand

x equal y
x lessThanOrEqual y
x greaterThanOrEqual y
x doesNotEqual y
x greaterThan y
x lessThan y

Conditionals

• ef translates to if in Norse
• kostr the Norse word for "Otherwise" replaces else

JavaScript	VikingScript
let x = 5 if(x == 5) { console.log(x) } else if (x > 10) { console.log("greater") } else (x < 10) { console.log("less") }	kalla x = 5 ef(x equal 5) { runes(x) } kostr ef (x greaterThan 10) { runes("greater") } kostr (x lessThan 10) { runes("less") }

True / False

• Replaced true and false values to please the Gods

JavaScript	VikingScript
true false	thor loki