Unicon

Unicon is an open source programming language created in 2008 by Clint Jeffery.

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Unicon is a programming language designed by American computer scientist Clint Jeffery with collaborators including Shamim Mohamed, Jafar Al Gharaibeh, Robert Parlett and others. Unicon descended from Icon and a preprocessor for Icon called IDOL. Compared with Icon, Unicon offers better access to the operating system as well as support for object-oriented programming. Read more on Wikipedia...

Unicon website
Unicon Wikipedia page
file extensions for Unicon include icn
There are 20 Project Euler users using Unicon
Explore Unicon snippets on Rosetta Code
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Unicon
unicon.org was registered in 2004
See also: (6 related languages)Unix, UML, Unicode, REBOL, Curl, Icon

Example from the web:

procedure main()
 w := open("test UNICON window", "g")
 write(w, "Hello, World!")
 read(w)
 close(w)
end

Example from hello-world:

procedure main()
    write("Hello World")
end

Example from Wikipedia:

procedure main()
	w := open("test UNICON window", "g")
	write(w, "Hello, World!")
	read(w)
	close(w)
end

Feature	Supported	Token	Example
Integers	✓		# \b([+-]?[0-9]+[KMGTPkmgtp]?)\b
Floats	✓		# [+-]?[0-9]\.([0-9])([Ee][+-]?[0-9]*)?
Hexadecimals	✓		# \b([+-]?([2-9]\|[12][0-9]\|3[0-6])[rR][0-9a-zA-Z]+)\b
Strings	✓	"	"Hello world"
Print() Debugging	✓	write
Comments	✓		# A comment
Line Comments	✓	#	# A comment
Semantic Indentation	X

Unicon - Programming language

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