Unicon - Programming language

Unicon is an open source programming language created in 2008 by Clint Jeffery.

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Unicon is a programming language designed by American computer scientist Clint Jeffery with collaborators including Shamim Mohamed, Jafar Al Gharaibeh, Robert Parlett and others. Unicon descended from Icon and a preprocessor for Icon called IDOL. Compared with Icon, Unicon offers better access to the operating system as well as support for object-oriented programming. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
There are 20 Project Euler users using Unicon
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Pygments supports syntax highlighting for Unicon
unicon.org was registered in 2004
See also: (6 related languages) Unix, UML, Unicode, REBOL, Curl, Icon

Example from the web:

procedure main()
 w := open("test UNICON window", "g")
 write(w, "Hello, World!")
 read(w)
 close(w)
end

Example from hello-world:

procedure main()
    write("Hello World")
end

Example from Wikipedia:

procedure main()
	w := open("test UNICON window", "g")
	write(w, "Hello, World!")
	read(w)
	close(w)
end

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Integers	✓	# \b([+-]?[0-9]+[KMGTPkmgtp]?)\b
Floats	✓	# [+-]?[0-9]\.([0-9])([Ee][+-]?[0-9]*)?
Hexadecimals	✓	# \b([+-]?([2-9]\|[12][0-9]\|3[0-6])[rR][0-9a-zA-Z]+)\b
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		write
Comments	✓	# A comment
Line Comments	✓	# A comment	#
Semantic Indentation	X