miscoranda: by Sean B. Palmer

Pluvo

For all of you who've been waiting for me to release this, and all of you who haven't, my Pluvo Programming Language project is now go. From the homepage: "Pluvo is a nascent experimental scripting language with an easy to use syntax, built in test facilities, and modern datatypes. High level and data structured, it makes things easier for the programmer by incorporating idioms from a wide range of languages in a consistent manner."

I had been working hard to get it to a level of maturity where it was at least a curiosity and had the major structural functions working so that people could get a feel for them. It's also, hopefully, at a level where people can actually have a go at adding bits themselves, not that I expect that to happen particularly. This means that I haven't really discussed much of the feature set with anyone, which has been very difficult to avoid!

So there you go: feel free to download it, poke at it, get it running and so on, but don't expect too much from it. It's mainly the concept of the thing and the ideas implemented in it that are the fun thing. It might even prove to be something that I continue to the point of actually maintaining various of my scripts in; especially, perhaps, CGIs which I think could turn out to be quite nice written in Pluvo.

by Sean B. Palmer, at 2006-07-01 01:06:15. Comment?

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