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lain - Programming language

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lain is a programming language created in 2017.

#2367on PLDB 7Years Old

Lain is both an inline scripting library that allows for complex templating of the wiki pages, and a programming language that exists at the core of the engine to load and parse content for each article.


Example from the web:
(add (sub 5 3) 2) ; Basic Math (λ (a b c) (concat a b c)) ; Lambda (def obj {:foo "bar"}) ; Creating object (join obj:foo) ; Reading object parameters (def _sidebar (dom:create "sidebar")) ; Creating DOM elements

Language features

Feature Supported Token Example
Comments ✓
; A comment
Line Comments ✓ ;
; A comment
Semantic Indentation X

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