Falcon - Programming language

Falcon is a programming language created in 2003 by Giancarlo Niccolai.

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Falcon is an open source, multi-paradigm programming language. Design and implementation is led by Giancarlo Niccolai, a native of Bologna, Italy and Information Technology graduate from Pistoia. Falcon translates computer source code to virtual machine instructions for evaluation. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of Falcon happened in https://github.com/falconpl
Explore Falcon snippets on Rosetta Code
Falcon on HOPL
Falcon appears in the TIOBE Index
falconpl.org was registered in 2005
See also: (15 related languages) Perl, Lua, Smalltalk, PHP, Lisp, Python, Ruby, Unicode, XML, PostgreSQL, SQLite, JSON, Regular Expressions, Linux, Solaris

Example from hello-world:

#!/usr/bin/env falcon

> "Hello World"

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello World in Falcon

> "Hello World!"

Example from Wikipedia:

directive lang=fr_FR           // uses 5 characters ISO language code

 > i"Bonjour à tout le monde!"

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X