clay - Programming language

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clay is a programming language created in 2010 by KS Sreeram and Joe Groff.

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14Years Old

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/jckarter/clay

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The Clay programming language

Tags: programming language
clay is developed on GitHub and has 402 stars
Early development of clay happened in https://claylabs.com/
clay is written in C++, Make, XML, Python, CMake, C, Java, Markdown, Vim script, Go, Bourne shell, CSS, SVG, Lisp
There are 5 Project Euler users using clay
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for clay
Read more about clay on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

import printer.(println);

factorial1(n) {
    if (n == 0)
        return 1;
    return n*factorial1(n-1);
}

factorial2(n) {
    var p = 1;
    again :
    if (n == 0)
        return p;
    p *: n;
    n -: 1;
    goto again;
}

factorial3(n) {
    var p = 1;
    while (true) {
        if (n == 0) break;
        p *: n;
        n -: 1;
    }
    return p;
}

factorial4(n) {
    var p = 1;
    for (i in range(n))
        p *: i+1;
    return p;
}

main() {
    var n = 7;
    n -: 1;
    var f = factorial4(n);
    println("factorial(", n, ") = ", f);
    return 0;
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Token
Comments	✓
MultiLine Comments	✓
Line Comments	✓
Integers	✓
Hexadecimals	✓
Print() Debugging	✓	println