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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by armchair_progamer@programming.dev to c/programming_languages@programming.dev

From the site:

We have entered a world in which we need to do more with less. If you, like us, have frowned at the difficulty and inefficiency of creating software, and wondered if there is a better way, Meta is for you. It is a descendant of the acclaimed REBOL and Logo computer languages. Logo was designed in academia to teach programming in a simple yet powerful way. It is widely used in education and influenced many newer systems and languages. REBOL extended this concept to professional programming. It was invented by Carl Sassenrath, the chief software designer of the famous Amiga computer, the first consumer multimedia system. Meta takes the next step by combining this design with the virtues of the C programming language, which has been the standard for software interoperability and performance for half a century.

meta-lang-examples (GitHub)

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[-] kakes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 months ago

For anyone curious, FizzBuzz:

Meta [
	Title:   {Fizz Buzz math "game"}
	Author:  "Kaj de Vos"
	Rights:  "Copyright (c) 2021,2022 Kaj de Vos"
	License: {
		PD/CC0
		http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
	}
	Notes: {
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizz_buzz
		https://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest
		https://www.rosettacode.org/wiki/FizzBuzz
	}
]

For counter 100 [                                   ; Count to 100
    Third?: unless modulo counter 3 [write "Fizz"]  ; Display "Fizz" every third count; remember whether we did

    Any [
        unless modulo counter 5 [write "Buzz"]      ; Display "Buzz" every fifth count
        third?                                      ; Remember earlier result
        write counter                               ; Display the number if not third or fifth
    ]
    Write " "                                       ; Separate the displayed items
]
Write new-line                                      ; Return the text cursor to the start of the line
[-] Norodix@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

I find that very hard to read.

[-] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

What I am not seeing is how it is much different than other languages. But hey, they had me at Atari!

[-] sxan@midwest.social 3 points 6 months ago

It's not so bad in a proper editor. These are very long lines and wrapping makes it worse than it is.

[-] hardkorebob@programming.dev -3 points 6 months ago

Complexity Bias. I had it too. Withers away with time.

[-] yuri@pawb.social 2 points 6 months ago

It reads just like FiM++

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