| Linotte | |
| Released: | 22 October 2005 |
| Website: | langagelinotte.free.fr |
Linotte is an interpreted 4th generation programming language. Linotte's syntax is in French.
The language's goal is to allow French-speaking children and other francophones with little computer science experience to easily learn programming,[1] with the slogan (in French) "you know how to read a book, so you can write a computer program".[2]
Linotte uses a non-technical vocabulary entirely in French. Its terms are closer to those used in film or literature, with a program being a book, a variable being an actor, and the screen a canvas. Instead of executing a book, it is read.
The function body starts at "début", French for "start". Keywordsthat in other languages might be named things "print" or "log" in Linotte are named things like "affiche", French for "display":
BonjourLeMonde: début affiche "Bonjour le monde !"
Similarly, a program can "demande", or ask, to prompt the user to enter a value.
Linotte also supports things like networking and graphics, and even contains a web templating engine that allows the mixing of HTML and Linotte in the same file, much like PHP or JSP.[3]