Boo is an

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statically typed In computer programming, a type system is a logical system comprising a set of rules that assigns a property called a ''type'' (for example, integer, floating point, string) to every '' term'' (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols). Usu ...

general-purpose programming language In computer software, a general-purpose programming language (GPL) is a programming language for building software in a wide variety of application Domain (software engineering), domains. Conversely, a Domain-specific language, domain-specific pro ...

that seeks to make use of the

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's support for

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internationalization Internationalization or Internationalisation is the process of increasing involvement of enterprises in international markets, although there is no agreed definition of internationalization. Internationalization is a crucial strategy not only for ...

, and web applications, while using a Python-inspired syntax and a special focus on language and compiler extensibility. Some features of note include

type inference Type inference, sometimes called type reconstruction, refers to the automatic detection of the type of an expression in a formal language. These include programming languages and mathematical type systems, but also natural languages in some bran ...

, generators, multimethods, optional

duck typing In computer programming, duck typing is an application of the duck test—"If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck"—to determine whether an object can be used for a particular purpose. With nominative ...

, macros, true closures,

currying In mathematics and computer science, currying is the technique of translating a function that takes multiple arguments into a sequence of families of functions, each taking a single argument. In the prototypical example, one begins with a functi ...

, and

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s. Boo was one of the three scripting languages for the Unity game engine (

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employed De Oliveira, its designer), until official support was dropped in 2014 due to the small userbase. The Boo Compiler was removed from the engine in 2017. Boo has since been abandoned by De Oliveira, with development being taken over by Mason Wheeler. Boo is

free software Free software, libre software, libreware sometimes known as freedom-respecting software is computer software distributed open-source license, under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, distribut ...

released under the BSD 3-Clause license. It is compatible with the

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and Mono frameworks.

Syntax

print ("Hello World") def fib(): a, b = 0L, 1L h # The 'L's make the numbers double word length (typically 64 bits) while true: yield b a, b = b, a + b # Print the first 5 numbers in the series: for index as int, element in zip(range(5), fib()): print("$: $")

References

External links

Official website

How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning to Program with Boo

Boo Succinctly Revealed

Bootorial
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Syntax

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