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Orc is an open source programming language created in 2004 by Jayadev Misra.

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Orc is a concurrent, nondeterministic computer programming language created by Jayadev Misra at the University of Texas at Austin. Orc provides uniform access to computational services, including distributed communication and data manipulation, through sites. Using four simple concurrency primitives, the programmer orchestrates the invocation of sites to achieve a goal, while managing timeouts, priorities, and failures.. Read more on Wikipedia...


Example from hello-world:
{- HelloWorld.orc -- Orc program HelloWorld - - $Id$ - - Created by xbony2 on Nov 8, 2014 8:30:25 PM - Licensed under public domain. -} Println("Hello World") >> stop

Language features

Feature Supported Example Token
Strings ✓ "Hello world" "
Comments ✓ {- A comment -}
MultiLine Comments ✓ {- A comment -} {- -}
Print() Debugging ✓ Println
Semantic Indentation X

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