[Nolang]

Nolang is a programming language.
Design priciple of Nolang is to make C/C++ alike programming language with familiar syntax, which is even easier to adopt.
Top of that Nolang will add features you could only dream about on C/C++.

Features

Current status

Currently Nolang is under development and first public version was released 2010/10/08.
REMARK! Nolang is still under development and real usage is discouraged. These releases are ment just to be preview and to get feedback, improvements and bug fixes.

Releases

2011/07/27 nolang-20110727.tar.gz 
- Starting API changes/break (new string & other stuff)
- Extension system support for library
- Test app for extensions under lib/
- Test extension under extensions/
- Extension code generation working in compiler
2011/07/17 nolang-20110717.tar.gz 
- Packaging for different distros
2011/07/08 nolang-20110708.tar.gz 
- Include
- Better compile and project handling
- Many improvements (Node, NString, etc.)
2011/07/06 nolang-20110706.tar.gz 
- Project class
- More flexible build options
- Changed unicode handling from wchar to libunistring (API/ABI break)
- Cleanups
- Packaging
2011/06/12 nolang-20110612.tar.gz 
- Fixes for parent methods and parameters
- Other tiny fixes.
2011/06/11 nolang-20110611.tar.gz 
- New method call system
- Many improvements
2010/12/23 nolang-20101223.tar.gz 
- Refrence parameters
- Optionally print parse tree (compile time option: --tree)
- Parent initialization drafting.
2010/10/24 nolang-20101024.tar.gz 
- Array functions (push/pop/shift/unshift/clear)
- Trace (compile time option: --trace)
2010/10/16 nolang-20101016.tar.gz 
- Method calls inside class object
- Assigning string or number to a array
2010/10/08 nolang-20101008.tar.gz 
- First public release
- Basic scanner + lexer + parser + code generation
- Support very minimal set of features
- Features not fully implemented, missing functionality
- Needs a lot of refactoring, tidying code, etc.
- Most examples working properly, except test/test.nolang which has some future feature tests

Git

Git repository has always the lastest code. Clone Git repository using:
git clone http://nolang.com/git/nolang.git

Repositories

Built binaries are available for different Linux distributions. Please see all repositories and raw repository structureas at: http://nolang.com/repos/. Distribution specific inscructions below.

Ubuntu

To use it add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
Ubuntu 10.10 deb http://nolang.com/repos/ubuntu_10.10/ /
Ubuntu 11.04 deb http://nolang.com/repos/ubuntu_11.04/ /
Then do: 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nolangc nolang-extensions

Fedora

Currently Fedora 14 and 15 are supported. First you need to add repository to the package manager as super user:
Fedora 14 yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://nolang.com/repositories/fedora_14/nolang.repo
Fedora 15 yum-config-manager --add-repo=http://nolang.com/repositories/fedora_15/nolang.repo
To install Nolang just do as super user: 
yum install nolang nolang-extensions

OpenSUSE

OpenSUSE 11.3 zypper addrepo http://nolang.com/repos/opensuse_11.3/ "Nolang"
OpenSUSE 11.4 zypper addrepo http://nolang.com/repos/opensuse_11.4/ "Nolang"
To install Nolang just do as super user (for unsigned packages just answer "yes"): 
zypper ref
zypper install nolang nolang-extensions

Patches and bugs

Patches can be sent to: .
Bug reports can be sent to: .
Any feedback can be sent to: .

Code examples

Some code examples.

Hello World!

First the traditional "Hello World" application!

helloworld.nolang

main()
{
    print "Hello, World!\n";
}

Output

Hello, World!

Extended Hello World!

hello2.nolang

Download hello2.nolang.

Output

Extended Hello, World 42!
First value: 4
Whole array: 4 5 6

More complex test

test2.nolang

Download test2.nolang.

Output

Extended Hello, World 42!
Second value: 5
Whole array: 4 5 6 42 
Second value: 45
Whole array: 123 45

Advanced test

test7.nolang

Download test7.nolang.

Output

Extended Hello, World 42!
Test::dump()
Second value: 5
Whole array: 4 5 6 42 
Array size: 4
Test::dump()
Second value: 45
Whole array: 123 45 
Array size: 2
Int size: 4
get(1): 45
Test::dump()
Second value: 270
Whole array: 246 270 
get(1): 270
2==2
Array data values are: 1 3 
Array sdata values are: Test 
Before noref: 4 6 8 9 4 
After noref: 4 6 8 9 4 
After ref: 4 6 8 9 4 5 
Got 5
Got 42
Other::dump()
Second value: 5
Whole array: 4 5 6 
Otherval: 5
Other::dump()
Second value: 5
Whole array: 4 5 6 12 
Otherval: 5

More examples

More examples.

License

Nolang is released under an Open source license. The license is BSD compatible.
Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Nolang project All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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