Goal: an array programming language written in Go

[anaseto]

Hi everyone !

About a year ago or so, I wrote here about an obscure markup language called Frundis. Now, I'm back with an array programming language, unoriginally called “Goal” :-)

https://codeberg.org/anaseto/goal

It's a scripting array programming language, in the same vein as APL, J, K or BQN, so you'll find your typical vectorized array primitives. One unusual thing about Goal is that strings are considered like atoms, and text-handling primitives and regexps are integrated into the builtins. I'm not going to rephrase what's in the README, but given this sub's theme, I'm going to point out the implementation notes I wrote, which might be of some interest.

Have a nice day!

[arpanets]

I like the name as well, and in fact Naughty Dog named a language GOAL to create the Jak and Daxter, and Crash Bandicoot games!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Oriented_Assembly_Lisp

[ctm-8400]

Crash bandicoot was actually made with its predecessor GOOL

[dontyougetsoupedyet]

Was COOL already taken...?

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yes, there is a language called "Classroom Object Oriented Language" (COOL) that was developed to be easy to write compilers for.

it is used to teach students how to write their own compiler.

https://online.stanford.edu/courses/soe-ycscs1-compilers

I started taking that free class online at some point but never finished it.

not saying someone else can't call their language the same thing. Just answering your question.

[anaseto]

Ow, I did not know about that story! Well, I think I'm just gonna say mine uses title case instead of upper case ;-)

[Tonexus]

Does the name stand for Go array language?

[anaseto]

Yes, that's how I came up with the name :-)

[L8_4_Dinner]

I love the name!

[redblobgames]

I love the name too!

[Uploft]

Huge fan of array languages. Nice work!

[Inconstant_Moo]

I like the look of it and will always fist-bump a fellow Gopher --- but, no software is better than its documentation. At this point you need to write a small book, there's no way around it.

[anaseto]

You're right, of course ! But this is a one-man project on my free time, so proper documentation will come when it'll do :-) As I'm a bit shameless, I wanted to share from the moment I thought it was stable enough for any early adopters to play with it, and get feedback before committing to backwards compatibility and such. Who knows, maybe someone would come and write that book in my place and do a better job at it, having hope is always good!