Pico can be seen as an effort to generate a palatable and enjoyable language for people who don't want to study hard for the elegance and power of a language. They've done it by adapting Scheme's syntax and semantics.
Pico should be interpreted as 'small', the idea was to create a small language for educational purposes.
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Language Elements
Comments
Comments are surrounded by a backquote (`).
Variables
Variables are dynamically typed, pico uses a static scope.
var: value
func(arg1, arg2): ...Functions can be called with the following syntax:
func(value1, value2)
+(5, 2) 5 + 2
It does not have a native char type, so users should resort to size 1 strings.
Tables are compound datastructures that may contain any of the regular datatypes.
Boolean types are represented by functions, in the same way as lambda calculus does.
max(a, b):
if(a < b, b, a)
Control Structures
Conditional Evaluation
Only the usual if statement is included
if(condition, then, else)
Code Snippets
display('Hello World', eoln)Implementations
External links