Falcon

Falcon is a programming language created in 2003 by Giancarlo Niccolai.

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Falcon is an open source, multi-paradigm programming language. Design and implementation is led by Giancarlo Niccolai, a native of Bologna, Italy and Information Technology graduate from Pistoia. Falcon translates computer source code to virtual machine instructions for evaluation. Read more on Wikipedia...

Falcon website
Falcon Wikipedia page
Falcon first developed in https://github.com/falconpl
file extensions for Falcon include ftd, fal and fam
Explore Falcon snippets on Rosetta Code
Falcon on HOPL
Falcon appears in the TIOBE Index
falconpl.org was registered in 2005
See also: (15 related languages)Perl, Lua, Smalltalk, PHP, Lisp, Python, Ruby, Unicode, XML, PostgreSQL, SQLite, JSON, Regular Expressions, Linux, Solaris

Example from hello-world:

#!/usr/bin/env falcon

> "Hello World"

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello World in Falcon

> "Hello World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

directive lang=fr_FR           // uses 5 characters ISO language code

 > i"Bonjour à tout le monde!"

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Line Comments	✓	//	// A comment
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X

Falcon - Programming language

Language features