- typesafe portable macro assembler. Used for those cases when people want "close to the metal" behaviour of C, but with less footgun potential.
- Archaeology of old language features that have been thrown out with the bathwater (e.g. COBOLs use of '.' as statement terminator, "PIC" statements)
- attempt at Perl-style language which optimises for English text readability, comprehensibility and euphony
- typesafe portable macro assembler. Used for those cases when people want "close to the metal" behaviour of C, but with less footgun potential.
- Archaeology of old language features that have been thrown out with the bathwater (e.g. COBOLs use of '.' as statement terminator, "PIC" statements)
- attempt at Perl-style language which optimises for English text readability, comprehensibility and euphony