EGL - Programming language

EGL, aka Enterprise Generation Language, is a programming language created in 2008.

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EGL (Enterprise Generation Language), originally developed by IBM and now available as the EDT (EGL Development Tools) Open Source project under the Eclipse Public License (EPL), is a programming technology designed to meet the challenges of modern, multi-platform application development by providing a common language and programming model across languages, frameworks, and runtime platforms. The language borrows concepts familiar to anyone using statically typed languages like Java, COBOL, C, etc. However, it borrows the concept of stereotype from Unified Modeling Language (UML) that is not typically found in statically typed programming languages. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of EGL happened in IBM
Explore EGL snippets on Rosetta Code
EGL on HOPL
EGL appears in the TIOBE Index
See also: (10 related languages) Java, COBOL, C, UML, JavaScript, JVM, Linux, IBM System z, SOAP, RPG

Example from hello-world:

program HelloWorld
    function main()
        SysLib.writeStdout("Hello World");
    end
end

Example from Wikipedia:

1 package com.mycompany.ui;
 2
 3 import com.mycompany.services.Employee;
 4 import com.mycompany.services.EmployeeService;
 5 import dojo.widgets.DojoGrid;
 6 import dojo.widgets.DojoGridColumn;
 7
 8 handler EmployeeView type RUIhandler { initialUI = [ grid ],
 9                                        onConstructionFunction = start,
10                                        cssFile = "main.css" }
11
12     grid DojoGrid { behaviors = [ ], headerBehaviors = [ ], columns = [
13                     new DojoGridColumn { displayName = "First Name", name = "FIRSTNAME" },
14                     new DojoGridColumn { displayName = "Last Name", name = "LASTNAME" },
15                     new DojoGridColumn { displayName = "Salary", name = "SALARY" }
16             ] };
17
18     function start()
19         svc EmployeeService { };
20         call svc.getEmployees () returning to displayEmployees;
21     end
22
23     function displayEmployees(retResult Employee [ ] in)
24         grid.data = retResult as any [ ];
25     end
26
27 end

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		SysLib.writeStdout