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A Python-ish programming language that targets the CLR

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nine

A Python-ish programming language that targets the CLR.

A few colleagues and I wrote this back in 2005 for a software engineering class. It's written in Python.

The language looks a fair bit like Python, but is statically typed and targets the CLR.

What does the language look like?

A lot like Python. :)

class Quad:
    var points as array(Vertex)

    static def New(v1 as Vertex, v2 as Vertex, v3 as Vertex, v4 as Vertex) as Quad:
        var q = Quad()
        q.points = array(Vertex, 4)
        q.points[0] = v1
        q.points[1] = v2
        q.points[2] = v3
        q.points[3] = v4
        return q

    def Draw():
        for p in self.points:
            p.Draw()

If you're interested in further detail, check out the test suite in ninec/tests. By and large, the tests compile and run programs that exercise just about every corner of the syntax.

Running the Code

I've gotten all the tests to run green on IronPython 2.9.9a0 on Mono 3.2.5 on OSX. I really hope it will also run on Windows.