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3.2.2 C ¶

The C programming language is a low-level language. We took inspiration from it in the implementation of our language. For example, the C programming language is from the imperative paradigm, and so is our language.

We took many things from this language:

• The imperative paradigm
• The int-defined booleans In the C programming language, all integers can be interpreted as booleans. A false is a value strictly equal to zero, and a true is every other values.
• The possibility of defining variables local to each function call
• The possibility of using recursive function calls
• The representation of a chararacter by it’s ascii value
• The function used to print a character “putchar”
• The existence of a standard library with some useful functions
• All of the operations like xor, addition, bitshift…
• The possibility for functions to return a value
• The infix notation of operations, with parenthesis
• The possibility to compute directly with any combination of operations in any part of the code where a value is required. For example, when passing a parameter, you could pass a computation, a variable value, or a mix of both

Many of these features are also present in other languages, but we took them from our knowledge of the C programming language.