The Q Programming Language is a powerful and easy to read programming language with features from Assembly and C. Although it is designed to be used specifically for programming the Q Operating System, it can be used for general purpose lowish-level programming projects that would origionally have been done in Assembly/C/C++.
Q is an Object Oriented Programming Language with one key feature that no other languages have - Assembly Level CPU Access with ActionScript like syntax. What this means, in simpler terms, is you are able to change individual registers such as eax or al like you would in assembly, but in a language that also supports if statments, while loops, functions and many other features edvident in high-level languages such as Java and C.
Currently there is no compiler for Q. This is because Q is designed to be written and compiled on Q OS. Although it may seem unnessary to have to be using Q OS to write Q code, it eliminates the need for many complex compiler logic needed when compiling code for different systems other than that you are compiling on known as Cross Compiling.
When writing code in Q, it is best to use the vim text editor. This is because plankp created a syntax highlighting file for Q that you can install on your computer simply by downloading and running a setup script that I wrote. In this repository, navigate to /dev/setup.sh or just click that link. Download the file and make sure it has permission to execute this file as a program. You can make sure it does in Ubuntu by right clicking the file in the file browser when you have downloaded it, choosing Properties then click the second tab in the menu that opens, Permissions. Simply tick the bow saying Allow executing file as program and then you are able to open a Terminal window, navigate to the folder you put the setup.sh file in and run one command to install the .vim scripts.
./setup.sh
This will setup everything you need to be able to write code in the vim text editor on Ubuntu using the Q Language with the .code file extension.
If you are wondering why this repository exists with hardly anything in the code area, you are not alone! Almost everything for Q Programming Language currently can be found in the Wiki tab of this repository. When we start working on a compiler for Q Programming Language, there will obviously be a lot more information in the Code tab of the repository.
Thank you for looking at this repository and I hope you like Q Programming Language... not that there is anything much in the code area to see yet :)