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Is there any online material on this language?


Not yet. I've specced it out, but still working on the implementation. Here's a hand-written example showing how you can specify the constraints to validate a Knight's tour. You can then enumerate over the types to get valid tours.

https://gist.github.com/Feni/d819f120a7d179bc472c94df9471e60...


I would love to know your thoughts about https://github.com/pragmalang/pragma


Wouldn't have even clicked if not for the brackets. My mind jumped to the crappy game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_III


Huh, today I learned "parenthesis" are called "round brackets" in UK


I have never ever heard anyone call them that in the UK, they're either brackets or parenthesis to anyone I've ever spoken to - from scientists, to builders, my grandparents all said brackets (Including the one is almost illiterate)

I'm sure someone must use it but it's not at all common


I picked up "round brackets", "square brackets", "curly brackets" somewhere during my (Lancashire) youth though generally I only use them now when I encounter somebody confused by parens/brackets/braces as terminology.


I say square and curly, but not round - I'm from Devon, but I'm only 19, so I haven't got the accent.


Coincidentally the Dutch word(s) for "brackets" translates to "square parenthesis".


In Turkish, brackets are called "parentheses with corners".


Is the term "parenthetical" not common in the UK?


The alternative would be bracketed, I suppose, so it is common.


Wouldn't it just be "in brackets"?

I used to hear that quite often - not so much in recent years, if I think about it, but that may be by chance. I think it is what I would say.


Crappy is your subjective opinion. Others, including review sites, gave it above average views.


This is really interesting. I happen to dislike GUIs wherever it comes to any kind of software development. CLIs are just more programmatic, and I happen to be comfortable with programming. I've thought quite a bit about this while working on Pragma [0]. I think GUIs offered by BaaS (e.g. Firebase or Hasura) just aren't efficient compared to writing everything in files and using Git and my favorite text editor to work with it.

[0] https://pragmalang.com/


Crudely speaking, something like this could allow components built for React to easily be used in Angular apps. Where's the harm in that? Any existing framework can adopt the standard, and new frameworks can be built upon it. A new one pops up every day, and honestly, I'd love the ability to use some of the thousands of React components from the shiny new framework I'm trying out. I don't get all the fuss.


Scala is also definitely worth checking out https://www.scala-lang.org/


Why do we celebrate surviving for yet another year without celebrating all the steps we took during the year towards prolonging human lifespans? There should be a global medical/scientific conference to recap or something.


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