[Savannah-register-public] [task #5996] Submission of gimel

[Haakon Alvheim]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?5996>

                 Summary: Submission of gimel
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: haak
            Submitted on: Thursday 10/19/2006 at 01:14
         Should Start On: Thursday 10/19/2006 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sunday 10/29/2006 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


== REGISTRATION ADMINISTRATION ==

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or discarding the registration must be done using the specific "Group
Administration" page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively
logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=8847>


== REGISTRATION DETAILS ==

Full Name:
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  *gimel*

System Group Name:
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  *gimel*

Type:
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  non-GNU software &amp; documentation

License:
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  Other

Other License: 
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  GNU General Public License V2
The reason I did not choose "GNU General Public License V2 or later" is that
I would like the opportunity to review the final version of GPLv3 (and later)
before stating that those licenses apply to my project.

Description:
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  The purpose of this project is to design, document, and implement the gimel
programming language. (Note: The name of the language is the Phoenician letter
gimel, not the English word for the letter, but the English word will be used
here.) The project currently has no documents or code.

The language will be designed by me and possibly other interested hackers.
All documents and code produced and released as part of this Savannah project
will either have a free license policy or fall under the public domain.

Some of the design goals and philosophies of gimel are outlined below,
although any of these could change during the design process and many of them
are inprecise because this is a work in progress:

o The syntax is to be internally consistent and logical whenever possible.
o A language should not have limitations purely for the sake of having
limitations.
o It is very important to allow the programmer the maximum degree of
flexibility in programming.
o A language should be beautiful.

Some of the somewhat more specific goals for gimel follow:
o Allow object-oriented programming without limiting the programmer any more
than the programmer wishes to limit himself.
o Implement 'generic' classes, functions, etc., without the programmer having
to explicitly specify types (whenever possible).
o Static type checking whenever possible.
o A compiled-in debugging system which can be enabled or disabled at
compile-time (similar to C's assert, but much more.)
o Programmer-defineable operators.
o Efficient string operations, including support for Unicode and other
encodings.
o All entities (functions, variables, constants, ...) can be defined in
namespaces, and entities in namespaces can be imported or used qualified.
o Parameter passing by value, by reference, or by name/expression, allowing
the programmer to implement, for example, short-circuit operators like && and
||.








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