Dimple Programming Language Update

Dimple is almost ready to be considered ‘beta’ software. It is a ridiculously small programming language, but it is getting to the point where it might be able to get work done.

My plan is to use Dimple to implement solutions to at least one challenge on challenge you. The guys at work and I used to solve these programming challenges for fun. It was fun for a couple of months, but then it died out as the challenges got pretty dumb.

I have written a small program which attempts to calculate the factorial of a number. Run it and see what happens. It might seem odd at first until you consider that it is written in C with 32 bit integers.

let
    integer x,n.
in
    x := 1;
    n := 1;
    while x < 12
    do
        n := n * x;
        x := x + 1;
        write n;
    end
end

May 28, 2009   Posted in: Programming

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