Yorick - Programming language

Yorick is an open source programming language created in 1996 by David H. Munro.

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Yorick is an interpreted programming language designed for numerics, graph plotting, and steering large scientific simulation codes. It is quite fast due to array syntax, and extensible via C or Fortran routines. It was created in 1996 by David H. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of Yorick happened in Lawrence Livermore
Explore Yorick snippets on Rosetta Code
Yorick on HOPL
Yorick appears in the TIOBE Index
Yorick Ubuntu package
Yorick appears in the Quine Relay project
See also: (3 related languages) C, Fortran, Perl Data Language

Example from Riju:

write, "Hello, world!"

Example from hello-world:

#!/usr/bin/yorick -batch
print, "Hello World";

Example from Wikipedia:

> x=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]
> x
[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]
> y=[[7,8],[9,10],[11,12]]
> x(,+)*y(+,)
[[39,54,69],[49,68,87],[59,82,105]]
> x(+,)*y(,+)
[[58,139],[64,154]]

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	"Hello world"	"
Print() Debugging	✓		print