Simple english, or simplish for short, is a dynamic expression based programming language. Simplish is not a general purpose programming language since it lacks many important features associated to those langauges such as:
- control flow
- loops
- functions
- classes
Instead, simplish enables developers to write simple english-like grammar and have it be runnable code. As such, developers can use simplish to write business logic in plain english.
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/ ___|_ _| \/ | _ \| | |_ _/ ___|| | | |
\___ \| || |\/| | |_) | | | |\___ \| |_| |
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|____/___|_| |_|_| |_____|___|____/|_| |_|
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>>
>> age is 10
10
>> age equals 10
true
>> age greater than 20
false
>> insurance is "Geico"
"Geico"
>> name not equals "Geico"
false
>> motorcyclist is false
false
>> age not greater than 21 and not motorcyclist
true- bool
- int
- float
- string
- sequence
| Operator | Description |
|---|---|
| is | Assigns a value to a left handside identifier |
| equals | Compares left hand expression to right hand expression for equality |
| and | Logical and |
| or | Logical or |
| xor | Logical xor |
| not | Inverts a bool value of the right hand expression |
| greater than | Returns wether the left hand value is greater than to the right hand value |
| less than | Returns wether the left hand value is less than to the right hand value |
| greater/equals | Returns wether the left hand value is greater than or equal to the right hand value |
| less/equals | Returns wether the left hand value is less than or equal to the right hand value |
| in | Returns wether the left hand value is found in the right hand sequence |
This project is heavily influenced by learnings from the book Writing an interpreter in Go by Thorsten Ball. If you are interested in programming language design, interpreters, and compilers I highly recommend his work.