What is Prism?

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What prism ray is this? Is it to eat? Or to program? I've never heard of it. Tag:

I do not want to know everything, but basic information about what that is.

    
asked by anonymous 13.07.2017 / 19:49

2 answers

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Prism is a programming language based on Lua and also an interpreter for this language. It is good to point out that the language is in the initial phase and I did not find relevant information on how much development is currently.

The language has a native graphics library (called IG) with versions for Windows and Linux. This graphic library has the same license to use GTK. The license to use the interpreter is the same license to use Lua.

According to the official website the language has a version with statements in Portuguese and another version in English.

Still based on the official website, some language features are (emphasis added and italicized by me):

  • Interpreted in bytecodes ;

  • Dynamic typing;

  • Simplicity of types;

  • Portability. The program made in Prisma will have no difficulty running on the most popular operating systems;

  • Very fast;

  • Very light, does not consume many features of the machine;

  • It has powerful features for manipulating data: tables;

  • Indirect resources to apply object orientation: classes;

  • Easy to learn.

13.07.2017 / 20:02
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What is Prism? link

Prism is an interpreter for the programming language that bears the same name.

It has several features, such as:

  • interpreted in byte codes;

  • Dynamic typing;

  • Type simplicity;

  • Portability, the Prism program will have no difficulty running on the most popular operating systems;

  • very fast;

  • Very light, does not consume many features of the machine;

  • It has powerful features for manipulating data: Tables;

  • indirect resources to apply object orientation: classes;

  • easy to learn;

13.07.2017 / 19:56