The Programming Language DINO: Introduction

1. Introduction

DINO is a high level dynamic-typed scripting language. DINO is designed taking such design principles as simplicity, uniformity, and expressiveness into account. Dino is oriented on the same domain of applications as the famous scripting languages Perl, TCL, and Python. Most programmers know the C programming language. Therefore Dino aims to look like C where it is possible. Dino is an object oriented language with garbage collection. Dino has possibilities of parallelism description and exception handling. Dino is an extensible language with the possibility of dynamic loading of libraries written on other languages. The high level structures of Dino are

heterogenous extensible vectors
extensible associative tables with the ability to delete table elements
objects

Originally, Dino was used in the russian graphics company ANIMATEK for description of the movement of dinosaurs in a project. It has been considerably redesigned and was implemented with the aid of the COCOM tool set.

This document is not intended for use as a programmer's tutorial. It is a concise description of the language DINO and can be used as a programmer's reference.

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