Bosque (programming language)
 | This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. (April 2019) |
| Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: functional, Typed language |
|---|---|
| Designed by | Mark Marron |
| Developer | Microsoft Inc. |
| First appeared | March 3, 2019[1] |
| License | MIT License |
| Website | www |
| Influenced by | |
| JavaScript, TypeScript, ML | |
Bosque was inspired by the syntax and types of TypeScript and the semantics of ML and Node/JavaScript. It's the brainchild of Microsoft computer scientist Mark Marron, who describes the language as an effort to move beyond the structured programming model that became popular in the 1970s. The structured programming paradigm, in which flow control is managed with loops, conditionals, and subroutines, became popular after a 1968 paper titled "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" by computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra. Marron believes we can do better by getting rid of sources of complexity like loops, mutable state, and reference equality. The result is Bosque, which represents a programming paradigm that Marron, in a paper he wrote, calls "regularized programming."
References
- ^ "BosqueLanguage". Microsoft. March 3, 2019. Retrieved April 29, 2019.