Bosque is a

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designed & developed by

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that was inspired by the syntax and types of

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and the semantics of ML and Node/

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.Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript
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Overview

Bosque was designed by

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computer scientist Mark Marron, who describes the language as an effort to move beyond the

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model that became popular in the 1970s. The structured programming paradigm, in which flow control is managed with loops, conditionals, and subroutines, became popular after a 1968 paper titled "

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" by computer scientist

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. Marron believes we can do better by getting rid of sources of complexity like loops, mutable state, and reference equality. The result is Bosque, which represents a programming paradigm that Marron, in a paper he wrote, calls "regularized programming." The Bosque specification, parser, type checker, reference interpreter, and IDE support are licensed under

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and available on

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Examples

Add two numbers

function add2(x: Int, y: Int): Int 

add2(2, 3)     // 5
add2(x=2, y=3) // 5
add2(y=2, 5)   // 7

References

External links

Bosque Programming Language - Microsoft ResearchGitHub - microsoft/BosqueLanguage: The Bosque programming language is an experiment in regularized design for a machine assisted rapid and reliable software development lifecycle.
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Overview

Examples

Add two numbers

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