The LDPL Programming Language

LDPL is a very simple programming language designed from the ground up to be excessively expressive, readable, fast and easy to learn. It is mostly written in a series of statements that mimics plain English, in the likeness of [the good parts of] older languages like COBOL, with the desire that it can be understood by anybody. It's very portable and runs on a plethora of different architectures and operating systems including AMD-64 Linux and Windows, ARMv8 Linux and PowerPC Mac OS X. It even supports UTF-8 out of the box.

This repository contains the source code and releases of the LDPL compiler. Check http://ldpl.lartu.net/ for more information on the language, tutorials, examples and more!

About the language

LDPL is standarized here. That's both the language documentation and the compiler writting standard.

How to use this compiler

To use the compiler, you must have a C++ compiler already installed on your system and have mapped it to c++, found on your PATH. The LDPL Compiler compiles LDPL code to C++ code and thus this is a requirement for it to work.

If you want to download a compiled binary: just go to the Releases part of this repository and download the newest one available.

If you want to build LDPL yourself: First, download the latest release. Then make LDPL in the src folder. LDPL requires only C++11 to compile. Then write some LDPL source code, say source.lsc. Then compile ource code using ldpl source.lsc. The compiled, executable binary file will be saved as ldpl.out. Done! For more info on the compiler run ldpl -h. Example code can be found on the LDPL website.

Note for Windows users: compilation under Windows has been tested with MinGW as installed on that guide. MinGW-w64 seems to have some problems compiling LDPL.

Compiler options

• You can import files to your LDPL compilation by using the -i flag. For example, say you have a library mylib.ldpl and a source file mysource.ldpl, you can compile both and include the library by running ldpl -i=mylibrary.ldpl mysource.ldpl. Multiple -i= can be used to import multiple files.
• By using -r you can just compile the project and print the C++ representation for that code.
• -v and --version print out version info and release details.
• -h and --help print this list of options.

License

LDPL is distributed under the GNU General Public License 3.0. The LDPL Dragon logo is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.