Everything is a pattern, and all computation is pattern transformation.

factorial {
    [0] ↦ [1]
    [𝑛] ↦ [𝑛 × factorial(𝑛 − 1)]
}

Designed with non-human coding and development in mind, Buran's consistent syntax and clear semantics make it ideal for machine generation while remaining readable by humans—including specialist non-programmers such as mathematicians, who can write programs using standard ISO 80000-2 notation, and linguists who can express grammatical rules directly as pattern transformations.

No special syntax for different constructs. No historical accidents. No "we kept this for backward compatibility." Functions are patterns. Data structures are patterns. Type declarations are patterns. I/O is patterns. It's patterns all the way down.

The syntax uses standard mathematical notation — the same symbols mathematicians have used for centuries. A mathematician can read Buran code like a formula. A linguist can express grammatical rules directly. And an AI system can generate it reliably because there are no special cases to trip over.

Buran supports Unicode identifiers natively. The factorial function can be factorial in English, факториал in Russian, 階乗 in Japanese, مضروب in Arabic.

Buran excels at natural language processing tasks where text must be analyzed, transformed, and structured. Its pattern-matching foundation makes it natural to express grammatical rules, morphological transformations, and syntactic parsing. The language's support for Unicode and extended grapheme clusters ensures proper handling of text in any human language.

With native support for mathematical notation following ISO standards, Buran allows mathematicians and scientists to write expressions as they appear in mathematics textbooks. Domain-specific evaluation for matrices, complex numbers, symbolic calculus, and statistics enables sophisticated mathematical computation while maintaining notational clarity.