ELFE - Programming language

ELFE is a programming language created in 2003 by Christophe de Dinechin.

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Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/c3d/elfe

ELFE is a very simple and small programming language specifcally designed for everyday programming, notably for the Internet of Things.

Tags: programming language
ELFE is developed on GitHub and has 92 stars
Early development of ELFE happened in https://dinechin.org
ELFE is written in C++, Bash, YAML, Make, Markdown, awk

Example from the web:

invoke "sensor.corp.net",
    last_temperature := temperature
    every 1s,
        check_temperature temperature
    check_temperature T:real ->
        writeln "Measuring temperature ", T, " from process ", process_id
        if abs(T - last_temperature) >= 1.0 then
            reply
                temperature_changed T, last_temperature
        last_temperature := T
temperature_changed new_temp, last_temp ->
    writeln "Temperature changed from ", last_temp, " to ", new_temp

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