Fjölnir (programming language)

Fjölnir (also Fjolnir or Fjoelnir) is a programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland) that was mostly used in the 1980s. The source files usually have the extension fjo or sma.

Fjölnir
Paradigmprocedural, object-oriented
Designed bySnorri Agnarsson
First appeared1980s
Typing disciplinestrong, dynamic
Scopelexical
OSMS-DOS
Filename extensions.fjo, .fjv, .sma, .ein

Features

Fjölnir is based on the concept of representing programs as trees, and packages by substitutions on trees using algebraic operators.[1] For example, in the Hello World example below, "GRUNNUR" is a package, the block of code between braces is a package, and * is an operator that substitutes names in one package with elements from another. In this case, skrifastreng (which writes a string to the standard output) is imported from "GRUNNUR".

Code examples

;; Hello world in Fjölnir

"hello" < main
{
    main ->
    stef(;)
    stofn
        skrifastreng(;"Hello, world!"),
    stofnlok
}
*
"GRUNNUR"
;
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gollark: Still, at least this gets the bitrate down by a factor of 7.
gollark: *4* dropped frames? I sure do hope they aren't important.
gollark: You know, I didn't notice at the time, but the image from LyricLy from Olivia is *weirdly* high-resolution.
gollark: What? No.

References


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