flagship - Programming language

flagship is a programming language created in 1986.

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38Years Old

Tags: programming language
Early development of flagship happened in multisoft Datentechnik

Example from the web:

** File: hello1.prg         // your first program
? "Hello world!"            // similar to printf("\nHello world!")
wait                        // wait for user prompt before closing the application

** File: hello2.prg         // your second application
set color to "W+/B"         // set color white on blue
@ 5,10 TO 9,30              // draw box
@ 7,12 SAY "hello world"    // print text on given coordinates
key = inkey(5)              // wait for key press within 5 seconds

** File: dbf1.prg           // handles available/creates new database
#include "fspreset.fh"      // converts all file names to lower case
PARAMETER par1              // accepts command-line parameters
dbname := IF(EMPTY(par1), "mydbf1", par1)       // set default if required
IF .NOT. FILE(dbname + ".dbf")                  // database available?
  DBCREATE(dbname, {{"Name",    "C", 25, 0}, ;  //  not yet, so
                    {"Address", "C", 30, 0}, ;  //  create a new
                    {"Born",    "D",  8, 0}, ;  //  database, here
                    {"Note",    "M", 10, 0}} )  //  with 4 fields
ENDIF
USE (dbname) SHARED         // open the given database or mydbf1.dbf
IF !USED()                  // check the success
   ? "sorry, cannot open", dbname
   QUIT                     // abort the execution
ENDIF
BROWSE ()                   // browse/edit
QUIT                        // exit back to command line

Language features

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