Ezhil-Lang : எழில் - ஒரு தமிழ் நிரலாக்க மொழி; தமிழ் மாணவர்களுக்கு இது முதன் முரை கணிப்பொரி நிரல் ஏழுதுவதர்கு உதவும் (Ezhil, is a fun Tamil programming language for K-12) Ezhil is a procedural language with dynamic types, like Ruby/Python. Ezhil has a pascal-like syntax, with for-end, while-end, if-elseif-else-end statements, break, continue and def-end for defining functions.
Ezhil language is implemented in a handwritten scanner and parser using the Python programming language. Latest version of Ezhil-Language is v0.6.
If you would like to tryout the code, all you need is a python interpreter, and the code from https://github.com/arcturusannamalai/Ezhil-Lang/archive/latest.zip
Read Wikipedia article on Ezhil (Tamil) http://ta.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%E0%AE%8E%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D_%28%E0%AE%A8%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95_%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%B4%E0%AE%BF%29
or (English) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezhil_%28programming_language%29
Interesting features include support for recursion, and an interactive interpreter. Ezhil supports a Turtle module for simple on-screen graphics, similar to LOGO language from 1960s.
Currently Ezhil language is under development, and a little rough around the edges. You may still try it out, by going to the git source repository,
$ cd ./ezhil-lang/
and then typing,
$ ./ez ./ezhil_tests/hello.n பதிப்பி "வணக்கம்!" பதிப்பி "எழில் அழைக்கிரது"
வணக்கம்! எழில் அழைக்கிரது
where you should see the output above. For usage, try, $ ./ez --help usage: [-h] [-debug] [-stdin] [files [files ...]]
positional arguments: files
optional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -debug enable debugging information on screen -stdin read input from the standard input
$ ./ez எழில் 1>> 1 + 5 6 எழில் 2>> பதிப்பி "வணக்கம்! எழில் அழைக்கிரது" வணக்கம்! எழில் அழைக்கிரது எழில் 3>> exit()
You can also run ezhil as a web service by launching the webserver, $ ./webserver.sh and open the webpage, http://localhost:8080 in google-chrome or firefox, to enter your program and evaluate it.
Ezhil Tamil programming Python package can be invoked from within the Python shell or IDLE on Windows, by simply typing,
import ezhil ezhil.start()
But to do all of this, you need to build and install the Python packages from this source, by, $ cd ezhil-lang/ && python setup.py build $ cd ezhil-lang/ && python setup.py install