Goal - Programming language

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Goal is a programming language created in 2022 by Yon Fernández de Retana.

#1707on PLDB

2Years Old

Download source code:

git clone https://codeberg.org/anaseto/goal

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Goal is a K-like language that brings in ideas from Perl and BQN and is written in Go.

Tags: programming language, arrayLang
Early development of Goal happened in https://bardinflor.perso.aquilenet.fr/index-en
APL and J and K influenced the design of Goal
Goal is written in Go, Markdown, CSV, HTML, CSS
Read more about Goal on the web: 1.

Example from the web:

/ Handle command-line arguments: script name + optional file.
(2<#ARGS)and:error"USAGE: goal wordstats.goal [file]"
/ Read STDIN or filename given by last argument; lowercase everything.
src:_ 'read?[1=#ARGS;STDIN;*|ARGS]
/ Get all words (Unicode letters + dashes).
words:rx/[\p{L}-]+/[src;-1]
/ Print number of words; number of distinct words; five most frequent words.
say(#words;#dw:?words;5@!>dw!=%words)

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Regular Expression Syntax Sugar	✓