Expl

Expl stands for EXPression Language, it was ELPL before, But it is too obscure to be called "English Like Programming Language"

Compiling from source

You will need gcc/clang to compile the C file, Try: gcc excc.c -o excc If you get some weird error you can always create a new issue.

how to expl

[H]ello world

Ok, you now have two files, main.exc and the Interpreter, your code must have a main.exc file, Why? Because i'm lazy, delete the example main.exc And create another one, now, on it, type:

>H
N

Save the file as main.exc and run excc. if you did everything alright you will see this:

H

But here is the sad part, you can only print one character a time. Oh, and the use of the N in the end is simple, it breaks the line.

Variables

First of all, they are not the same variables that you may know from other languages, they are what you call dictionaries in Python, but they have a fixed amount of keys, they have I_VAL(INT) and C_VAL(CHAR), you need to specify both when creating a variable, look at this example:

#a h 1234
>#/-xa
N

again, save it as main.exc and run excc, you will see this:

1234 h

I have a few things to explain here, first, the '#' is for indicating a variable, like '$' in php. Next, we have the declaration of the variable, we used two values, h(char) and 1234(int), they must follow that model: #c c i...i, where c is CHAR and i is INT. And last, we have the /-xa thing, we can break this to:

/ <--- access only the value specified after it
- <--- this can be anything except a whitespace
x <--- we specify -x to get both the INT and CHAR values

We have some variations, such as /D- and /d- that mean respectively non-digit and digit, or CHAR and INT.

Loops

Loops are cool, and they are relatively easy to do in expl, see this example:

{5
 >a
}
N

this will result in:

aaaaa

You may be thinking, "oh! So it executes the code inside The curly braces 5 times!", well, yes, but actually no, it executes each line 5 times, so, it's not like that:

Execute 5 times:
   Print hi
   Print bye;

it is more like that:

Print hi 5 times;
Print bye 5 times;

And of course, you can have nested loops:

{5
 {8
  >a
 }
}

Liveira / expl