The ability to read and write code is the literacy of the future. It's hard to achieve a higher 'literacy' rate with the extremely foreign (to the general population) image of programming.
Akin is a programming language that is intended to make learning how to program easier. The aim of the project is to create a programming language that has entirely clear, easy to understand syntax in English. Flexibility, clarity, and simplicity are musts for the language (yet to be achieved in any sense of the words).
This is somewhat achieved through the lexer and parser along with a (right now very dumb, barely NLP) NLP algorithm. The language right now has somewhat flexible English syntax (take a look at the parser --- in ANTLR).
The language chokes up extremely with classes and objects right now. Any nesting of 'code blocks' or sentences also cause extremely slow run times.
- Ruby (1.8.7+ or probably most versions you would have)
- Java/JDK 1.7
- Apache Ant
First of all, get the repo and cd into it:
$ git clone http://github.com/brandontruong--/Akin.git
$ cd Akin
Then compile it:
$ ant
While in the same directory, try running the following for a pleasant surprise:
$ ./akin hello.akin
For some more samples go to the test directory.
To run them, do the above command but replace hello.akin with test/[CHOSEN FILE].
The algorithm that contains the majority of the NLP functionality is not online yet because it is still in elementary form. Contact Brandon Truong if you'd like to see it or help out with it.
- Some adequate documentation
- Speeding up especially OOP stuff
- Some adequate documentation
- Adding more flexibility
- Some adequate documentation
- Javascript to Akin converter (far fetched idea...)
- Some adequate documentation.
Created by Brandon Truong
Email: me@brandontruong.com
Site: http://brandontruong.com
Based off of the example JVM language included in the book by Marc-André Cournoyer
Book: http://createyourproglang.com
Site: http://macournoyer.com
Apache 2.0