Silent Programming Language

A fast, general-purpose programming language

Sample syntax

    func int64 fibonacci(int64 x)
    {
        if(x > 2)
        {
            return fibonacci(x - 1) + fibonacci(x - 2); 
        }
        
        return 1;
    }

    func int64 main()
    {
        int64 x = fibonacci(40);
    }

Installation

cd SilentProgrammingLanguage
make compiler
make vm

Documentation

Variables

Variables can either be primitive or of user-defined type in form of a struct or a class, the syntax for the declaration of a variable is as follows:

    <type> <identifier>;

In case where the is a primitive, variables can be initialised as they are declared in the following way:

    <type> <identifier> = <expression>;

Where results in a value of the matching type to the identifier

References

The virtual machine is designed in a way that variables can be stored in either the stack of the virtual machine or the heap, when a variable is allocated on the heap the index of that object on the heap is stored on the stack as a 64 bit value, by default all non primitives are allocated on the heap and primitives on the stack, in cases where a primitive type has to be referred to by a reference the "ref" keyword can be used to declare a primitive variable to be explicitly stored on the heap, from then-on it behaves like any other object, the declaration of a sample reference would look like this:

    ref int32 x;