Jaithon

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Inspiration

While teaching my little brother coding I wanted a very simple interpreter that was easy for my brother to understand. This inspired me to attempt to wright my own programming language.

What it does

Jaithon is a Very simple General purpose programming language. It has many functionality such as the following.

• Variable Assignment: You can assign values to variables using the var keyword. Syntax: var x = 5
• Array Declaration: You can init arrays using the array keyword. Syntax: array arr = [1]
• Array Element Modification: You can modify elements of an array using the dot notation. Syntax: arr.add(0, 4).
• Print Statement: You can use the print keyword to print values to the console. Syntax: print x
• Mathematical Expressions: You can perform arithmetic operations (+, -, *, /) on numbers.
• Comparrisions: you can preform comparrisions by using the > and < symbols. Syntax: var a = 1>4 >> the output would be a = 0 because that statement is false.
• Parentheses: You can use parentheses to group expressions and control operator precedence. PEMDAS
• Trigonometric Functions: You can use trigonometric functions such as sin, cos, tan, asin, acos, atan, sqrt. Syntax: sin(3) sin(x)
• Detecting User input: You can detect user input. Syntax: input variable_name
• Time: You can access the users internal Clock by using the time keyword. Syntax: var t = time() This saves the time as an integer.
• Comments: You can add comments using the # symbol. Commented lines are displayed in green.
• If loops: You can do if loops by using the if/do keywords. Syntax: if 1>4 do print 1

How we built it

I wrote this using the C language, and I started with mathematical operations and then expanded to the additional functionalities I have as of right now.

Challenges we ran into

I had challenges while adding boolean functions in my language. To work around this challenge, I substituted True and False statements with 1s and 0s. I also had challenges in adding if clauses, so I implemented the comparisons such as greater than and less than, and this led to the if clauses becoming very easy.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• If else clause
• Boolian language
• Arrays
• My brother learning how to code
  ## What we learned I learned about the nitty-gritty of writing an interpreter. Now I am eager to learn and write my own 2 pass compiler in the future.

What's next for Jaithon - The JAI language.

• Implementation of for loop
• Strings
• Simple functions
• Custom functions
• classes

Built With

• c
• interpreter
• parser