README.md

The Esoteric Order of Dagon

This is a language designed and implemented by Caleb Thompson and Goose Mongeau.

You can call it Dagon for short.

Dagon As She is Wrote

fibonacci-recursive(n): # fuckin hyphens instead of underscores.
  if n <= 1, return n  #leading conditionals. comma rather than semicolon to separate statements
  self(n - 1) + self(n - 2)

fibonacci-imperative(n):
  current: 0
  next: 1

  n.times
    temp: next
    next +: current
    current: temp

  current

Hello

puts "Hello World"

Outputs strings "Hello " "World\n" (same result as above):

print "Hello "
print "World\n"

Syntax

Assignment

x: 1
Integer x: 1 # strongly typed
x: "string" # raises error or warning: Invalid type (assigning String to Integer)

Classes

/^(?:[A-Z][a-z]+)+:$/

MyClass:
  # here lies the definition
Plant:
  # defintion
Tree(Plant):
  # tree stuff

Methods

/^(?:[a-z]+-?)+[^-][()]?:\n $/

do-stuff:
  # definition
stuff:
  # definition
print():
  # definition

Variables

/^(?:[a-z]+-?)+[^-]: $/

name: # value
another-name: # value

License

Dagon is released under the MIT License