Writing an OS in a custom language

[crazygray]

Boil Baking Soda it makes you crazy seriously. LOL
Edit: Nah, I'm just half asleep and not thinking straight.(talking just to make sure I'm alive)

[AndrewAPrice]

You could try to do a sort of high-level English language like:

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Send 5 to port 21.
Write "Hello" to screen.
Store 5 plus 3 in A.

Each word is a keyword.
e.g.
"Send 5 to port 21."
Send - tell the language we're ending something
5 - the number to end
to - we're sending "to" a location
port - the location is a port.
21 - the number of the port.

"Write "Hello" to screen"
Write - A function in screen
"Hello" - The string to seen to screen
to - we're sending "to" a location
screen - an instance of our screen object.

There could be different sorts of function calls:

"x _ to" functions with parameter
"x _ and _ and _ to" for multiple parameters
"get x from _ and store in _" - get a variable
"get x and y from _ and store in _ and _" - get multiple variable
"tell _ to x" - run a function called x

[AJ]

to - we're sending "to" a location

Doesn't "Send" imply that?

"Write "Hello" to screen"

How about "Send "Hello" to screen" - perhaps without the "to"

"get x from _ and store in _" - get a variable

If "to" is redundant, "from" and "in" probably are as well

Cheers,
Adam

[Combuster]

I recall from logic classes that english was horribly ambiguous.

[babernat]

I recall from logic classes that english was horribly ambiguous.

A class in anthropological linguistics taught me that all human language is.