Exploring the $LANG Programming Language: Features, IDE, and Pythonic Comparisons
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Summary
The article discusses the $LANG programming language, noting its unique features including support for spaces in identifiers (allowing variable names like "Option Portfolio Risk"), preconditions for argument validation, and basic OOP support. The author compares the language's IDE to the old Turbo C++ with a blue text-based interface and mentions needing to remap keyboard shortcuts for better usability. The language gives Pythonic vibes despite visual differences, and while OOP support feels bolted on, the overall value proposition is highlighted.
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Visually obviously different from Python, but it gave me Pythonic vibes.
It's also nice that it supports preconditions, so you can specify the valid range of arguments etc.
It has some kind of OOP support but tbh it felt bolted on (understandably).
The IDE looked like Turbo C++ of old (blue, text based interface). Shortcuts are weird, so you need to remap keys to get sane defaults.
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