The Squirrel programming language 2.1.1 review

The Squirrel programming language is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that f

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The Squirrel programming language is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like games. Although Squirrel offers a wide range of features like:

Open Source zlib/libpng licence
dynamic typing
delegation
higher order functions
generators
cooperative threads(coroutines)
tail recursion
exception handling
automatic memory management (CPU bursts free; mixed approach ref counting/GC)
both compiler and virtual machine fit together in about 6k lines of C++ code.
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Squirrel is inspired by languages like Python,Javascript and expecially Lua(The API is very similar and the table code is based on the Lua one).

squirrel's syntax is similar to C/C++/Java etc... but the language has a very dynamic nature like python/Lua etc...


local array=[1,2,3,{a=10,b="string"}];

foreach (i,val in array)
{
::print("the type of val is"+typeof val);
}

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