User:Prajwalmr62/Hoon (programming language)
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Hoon is a higher level, strictly typed, static programming language being developed by Urbit. This language is converted to Nock by compiler and gets excecuted on Urbit environment.
History
Hoon is a programming language that is being developed by Urbit community. The name hoon is derived from the poem, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon written by Wallace Stevens. [1]
Syntax
Nouns store the data.
Vase is a container of nouns.
Type of noun is specified by spans.
The below program is to create a vase of atoms 42 of span %ud and 0x2a of span %ux .
> [42 0x2a]Applications
Even though the language is still in alpha mode, as the execution environment of Hoon, Urbit is written mainly as to act as a web server for cloud based personal applications, it can be presumed that the application if developed, would be mainly in that area.