Supernova Programming Language

Sergei Steshenko · 12-16-2013, 05:51 PM

Stumbled upon: http://supernova.sourceforge.net/ , http://sourceforge.net/projects/supernova/ .

gnashley · 12-17-2013, 12:33 AM

Hmm, do you see where the sources are? I only find a ubuntu binary package.

wpeckham · 12-17-2013, 07:10 AM

In the authors comments he says he "releases it as freeware", but never actually says it is open source.
You might also note that his last comment (that I could find with a very quick look) was from 2010.

Sergei Steshenko · 12-17-2013, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wpeckham

In the authors comments he says he "releases it as freeware", but never actually says it is open source.
You might also note that his last comment (that I could find with a very quick look) was from 2010.

I don't know. However, at http://sourceforge.net/projects/supernova/ one can see:

Quote:

Supernova started as a research and example about what we can do using PWCT (http://doublesvsoop.sourceforge.net ).
...
License
GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)

, so because of GPL it makes sense to inquire about the sources.

wpeckham · 12-19-2013, 02:15 PM

No argument here, just pointing out that is verbiage and the dates may indicate that if it is not already available, you may find that he is no longer in contact and may not HAVE the source!

Personally, I think it looks like something fun to build on and would love to have the source.

Luckily, the source and bin files are both available for download in the files area.

"Let's get Dangerous!"

Sergei Steshenko · 12-19-2013, 02:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wpeckham

No argument here, just pointing out that is verbiage and the dates may indicate that if it is not already available, you may find that he is no longer in contact and may not HAVE the source!

Personally, I think it looks like something fun to build on and would love to have the source.

GPL necessarily implies source availability. I.e. the issue should be dealt with both the developers and sourceforge.

gnashley · 12-20-2013, 12:39 AM

I did not see anything that looked like sources. Or are they inside the debs?

Sergei Steshenko · 12-20-2013, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gnashley

I did not see anything that looked like sources. Or are they inside the debs?

I wasn't looking for sources specifically. My goal was to show that programming in "human" language actually isn't such - there is defined grammar, and the grammar is context-sensitive.

I again suggest to ask about source the authors and sourceforge.

Myk267 · 12-20-2013, 09:50 PM

I don't know how these things build at all, but there's some interesting stuff here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/doub...ows/Supernova/

Here's an example from a file called FileToOpen.nova

Code:

i want window and the window title is file to open.
[x]. file to open
the window title from [x].

gnashley · 12-21-2013, 01:28 AM

Inside the debian archives there is a source directory which contains some *.prg files which may be foxpro sources. But I don't see how he would have gotten ubuntu binmries from them...

wpeckham · 12-21-2013, 07:27 AM

Source
In the downloads lists for the Windows files, there are bothin binary and source packages.
I presume one source would serve all platforms, but that is an assumption. I have not checked, or even downloaded a src archive.

Yet

gnashley · 12-21-2013, 07:44 AM

OK, I hadn't even looked under window section. I see some stuff in there that refers to delphi, so I guess one would compile such with lazarus. But, I'm not the 'one' to do that -we are legion.

Code:

I want edit window
set window title "We are back"
make title excited
you show window
I wanna 'nother window
set window title "P.S."
I want text say "Seems to maybe be Borland code"
make text 3 questions
show window

We are back!
P.S.
Source seems to maybe be Borland code???

wpeckham · 12-22-2013, 07:46 AM

After downloading and examining the files, it appears I was mistaken. The source files under Windows downloads seem to be for the IDE, not for the language itself.