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copied!<p>Fascinating — but, as the other answers note, an utterly unreleased and unknown language. How did you ever find it in the background of that screenshot? I had to brighten the image in the GIMP to see what you were talking about.</p> <p>The dialect is slightly Pythonic — it uses <code>__init__()</code> for object initiation, and seems to have something like Python's <code>for</code> loop (though only used here with integers?) — but it borrows at least as many constructs from other languages:</p> <ol> <li>The <code>do</code> … <code>end</code> delimiters from Ruby.</li> <li>From Smalltalk and Ruby, method arguments are simply listed with whitespace separation after the method name instead of being delimited with punctuation.</li> <li>The language for some reason seems unable to handle <code>a.b.c</code> despite the order of operations having been left-to-right for such expressions at least since the release of C in around 1970. Instead this odd language makes you type <code>{a.b}.c</code> unless I misunderstand a special case here.</li> <li>Lambda functions use parens and an arrow.</li> <li>Regular expressions have direct support in the syntax, using <code>r/.../</code>.</li> </ol> <p>For those who cannot see the image clearly, here is a snippet from it showing all of the above five features (this occurs one level deep, inside curly braces whose beginning we cannot see:</p> <pre><code>def __init__(self parent: nil) do {super}.__init__ parent; self.setLayout {QGridLayout}; transform = (t) -> {r/([^>])\n/.sub '\]<br />' t}; for c in (0 4) {self.layout}.setRowStretch c 1; for c in (0 3) {self.layout}.setColumnStretch c 1; {self.layout}.addWidget {QLabel {transform self.text}} 1 1; {self.layout}.addLayout { sublayout = {QHBoxLayout}; sublayout.addWidget {QLineEdit}; sublayout.addWidget {QPushButton '<…Russian text…>'}; return sublayout; } 2 1; {self.layout}.addWidget {QLabel {transform self.footer}} 3 1; end; </code></pre> <p>My wild guess is that this language compiles directly to C++, since beneath the pretty syntax I see nothing here that requires a dynamic language.</p>

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