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VikingScript

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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