| Kite | |
|---|---|
| Paradigm | functional, object oriented |
| Appeared in | 2006 |
| Designed by | Mooneer Salem |
| Typing discipline | dynamic, weak |
Kite is a computer programming language that appeared in late 2006. Its goals are to be fast and small, both in development time and actual running time. It does this by combining both object oriented and functional paradigms in the language syntax. One special feature is its use of the pipe character (|) to indicate function calls, as opposed to the period (.) or arrow (->) in other languages. Properties are still dereferenced using the period.
"Hello World" in Kite
Hello World is simply a single line (excluding comments and blank lines):
#!/usr/local/bin/kite "Hello World"|print;
Demonstrating simple inheritence:
class a [
property m1,
construct [
this.m1 = "foo";
]
];
class b from a [
property m2,
construct [
this.m2 = "bar";
],
method message() [
(this.m1 + this.m2)|print;
]
};
(make b)|message;
