Noja/docs/00_Overview.md

Overview

Noja is a high level programming language implemented as a learning exercise. Still, it aims to be a non-trivial example of how a language may be built.

The use-cases of Noja are the same as Python since their abstraction level is comparable. The syntax is more similar to the C-family of languages though (curly brackets to denote scope).

A Noja program

A Noja program is a sequence of statements separated by semi-colons (with some exceptions). The statements can be of various kinds:

• expressions
• function definitions
• if-else branches
• while loops
• do-while loops
• compound statements
• break jumps
• return statements

(You may note that there is no import statement! This is because the ability to import other files is exposed through a built-in function.)

If not in string literals, whitespace doesn't matter.

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