PAWN - Programming language

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PAWN is an open source programming language created in 2006.

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18Years Old

3kRepos

Download source code:

git clone https://github.com/compuphase/pawn

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Pawn is a quick and small scripting language that requires few resources.

Tags: programming language
PAWN is developed on GitHub and has 477 stars
There are at least 3,270 PAWN repos on GitHub
Early development of PAWN happened in Informatie-Technologisch Bureau CompuPhase
PAWN is written in Pascal, C, Assembly language, Tex, CMake, Rexx, XSLT, CSS, Markdown, C++
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 434 users using PAWN in 502 repos on GitHub
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for PAWN

Example from Riju:

#include <core>

main() {
    print("Hello, world!\n");
}

Example from Linguist:

#include <a_samp>

forward OneSecTimer();

new lasttick = 0;

main()
{
	print("\n----------------------------------");
	print("  This is a blank GameModeScript");
	print("----------------------------------\n");
}

public OnGameModeInit()
{
	// Set timer of 1 second.
	SetTimer("OneSecTimer", 1000, 1);
	print("GameModeInit()");
	SetGameModeText("Timer Test");
	AddPlayerClass(0, 1958.3783, 1343.1572, 15.3746, 269.1425, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0);
	return 1;
}

public OneSecTimer() {

	if(lasttick == 0) {
     	lasttick = GetTickCount();
		return;
	}
	new sText[256];
	format(sText,sizeof(sText),"GetTickCountOffset = %d",GetTickCount() - lasttick);
	print(sText);
	SendClientMessageToAll(0xFF0000, sText);
	lasttick = GetTickCount();
}

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Comments	✓	// A comment
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Semantic Indentation	X