Pike - Programming language

Pike is an open source programming language created in 1994 by Fredrik Hübinette.

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Pike is an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C. Unlike many other dynamic languages, Pike is both statically and dynamically typed, and requires explicit type definitions. It features a flexible type system that allows the rapid development and flexible code of dynamically typed languages, while still providing some of the benefits of a statically typed language. Read more on Wikipedia...

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There are at least 145 Pike repos on GitHub
Early development of Pike happened in Chalmers Datorförening
The Google BigQuery Public Dataset GitHub snapshot shows 94 users using Pike in 105 repos on GitHub
There are 6 Project Euler users using Pike
Explore Pike snippets on Rosetta Code
Pike on HOPL
Pike appears in the TIOBE Index
Pike Ubuntu package
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Pike
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for Pike
Pike appears in the Quine Relay project
There is 1 Jupyter Kernel for Pike
See also: (2 related languages) LPC, C

Example from Riju:

int main()
{
  write("Hello, world!\n");
  return 0;
}

Example from hello-world:

int main() {
    write("Hello World\n");
    return 0;
}

Example from the Hello World Collection:

// Hello world in Pike (pike.roxen.com)

int main(){
        write("Hello World!\n");
}

Example from Linguist:

#!/usr/bin/env pike

int main(int argc, array argv) {
	return 0;
}

Example from Wikipedia:

mixed anything;
anything = (int)5.5;         // anything is now the integer value 5
anything = (string)anything; // anything is now the string value "5"

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Print() Debugging	✓		write
Line Comments	✓	// A comment	//
Macros	✓	#define CYCLES 20
Comments	✓
Semantic Indentation	X