Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Blue

I was thinking about writing about a prgramming language that I never heard of before, so I looked up a list on google. I picked the most interesting sounding language to me, at that was the language "Blue". Blue is used mostly as a teaching tool for students learning about object orientated programming. The prgrams are done in a collection of classes which is also called a "project". The blue enviroment also allows very flexible testing and incremental software development.

It is a fairly simple language to understand the code. For example, to add you have to use the addition sign "+", and to print a message all you have to write is print("string"). The special syntax that allows you to shorten the code instead of writing long lines is known as an alias. Alias' do not add any special functions to the program however, they are only for visual use by making things easy for the programmer and the reader to read. In conclusion, Blue is a very good language to learn about the basics of object orientated programming, howver, it is not the best to use for programmers on a higher level up.

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