Programming language DINO
The development of COCOM and the programming language DINO has been
moved
to https://github.com/dino-lang/dino.
June 3, 2015
February 2007
DINO is a high level scripting dynamic-typed language.
DINO is oriented to the same domain of applications as famous
scripting languages Perl, TCL, Python, and
Ruby. The most of programmers know C language.
Therefore Dino aims to look like C language where it is possible.
Dino is an object oriented language with garbage collection.
Dino has possibilities of parallelism description and
exceptions handling. Dino is an extensible language
with possibility of dynamic load of libraries written on other
languages. The high level structures of Dino are
- heterogeneous extensible arrays
- extensible associative tables with possibilities of deleting
table elements
- objects
Originally, Dino was used in russian graphics company
ANIMATEK for description of movement of dinosaurs in a
project. That is the origin of the name. It has been considerably
redesigned and implemented with the aid of COCOM tool set.
In future, I am going to implement debugger and port a GUI library
into DINO. Any help in this will be appreciated. I am also going to
use DINO for compiler prototyping. It has a powerful fast Earley
parser with minimal cost error recovery and abstract tree generation
which may be cost driven for ambiguous grammars.
All documentation is generated with Linux sgml package. The
documentation in Postscript format (see it in distribution files)
looks better than in other formats.
If you would like to look how Dino language could be used as a
language for prototyping compilers and interpreters, here is a project of my eleven year old son
implemented on Dino.
Dino interpreter is distributed under GNU public license.
To download Dino interpreter goto to download page.