Cognate: Readable and concise concatenative programming
Cognate is a concise, readable concatenative programming language emphasizing simplicity and flexibility. It supports operators as functions, stack evaluation, control flow statements, list manipulation, recursion, and mutable variables through boxes.
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Cognate is a concise and readable concatenative programming language. It runs on Linux or Mac systems and can be installed using CognaC. In Cognate, operators like + and - are functions, and programs are evaluated right to left using a stack. Functions and variables are defined using Def and Let respectively. Control flow includes When, Unless, While, and If statements. Lists are created using the List function and manipulated with Push, First, Rest, For, Map, and Filter functions. Cognate also supports recursion and mutable variables through boxes. The language emphasizes simplicity and flexibility, allowing for concise and expressive code.
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9 commentsYes, give simple examples demonstrating the language!
Yes, explain the syntax and structure from these!
There are many languages posted HN. Many of them sound interesting but the linked page often gives no example code at all, weirdly enough. Or it gives the code for fibonacci sequence with no explanation (nth fibonacci number code is embarrassing just cause if you ever wrote a naive routine for the nth fibonacci number in production, you would be doing it way wrong).
Cognate is a project aiming to create a human readable programming language with as little syntax as possible. Where natural language programming usually uses many complex syntax rules, instead Cognate takes them away. What it adds is simple, a way to embed comments into statements.
…Cognate ignores words starting with lowercase letters, allowing them to be used to describe functionality and enhance readability. This makes Cognate codebases intuitive and maintainable.
Cognate is a stack-oriented programming language similar to Forth or Factor, except expressions are evaluated right to left. This gives the expressiveness of concatenative programming as well as the readability of prefix notation. Expressions can be delimited at arbitrary points, allowing them to read as sentences would in English.
Cognate borrows from other concatenative languages, but also adds unique features of its own.
> Print the Square of 8;
At first sight I really disliked this. I thought it'd become repetitive. But... no more repetitive than just writing prose I guess?
Show HN: Cognate – Stack oriented programming in English prose - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31312815 - May 2022 (6 comments)
Id probably take it further and use a marker to better distinguish code from ignored comments eg
_my_variable is #equal to 3
Something to tell variables apart from functions. Let user use whatever casing they desire
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