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Learn Bosque Programming

By : Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta
Book Image

Learn Bosque Programming

By: Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta

Overview of this book

Bosque is a new high-level programming language inspired by the impact of structured programming in the 1970s. It adopts the TypeScript syntax and ML semantics and is designed for writing code that is easy to reason about for humans and machines. With this book, you'll understand how Bosque supports high productivity and cloud-first development by removing sources of accidental complexity and introducing novel features. This short book covers all the language features that you need to know to work with Bosque programming. You'll learn about basic data types, variables, functions, operators, statements, and expressions in Bosque and become familiar with advanced features such as typed strings, bulk algebraic data operations, namespace declarations, and concept and entity declarations. This Bosque book provides a complete language reference for learning to program with Bosque and understanding the regularized programming paradigm. You'll also explore real-world examples that will help you to reinforce the knowledge you've acquired. Additionally, you'll discover more advanced topics such as the Bosque project structure and contributing to the project. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to configure the Bosque environment and build better and reliable software with this exciting new open-source language.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
5
Section 2: The Bosque Language Overview
10
Section 3: Practicing Bosque
15
Section 4: Exploring Advanced Features

Summary

Bosque adopts many of the types and operators that we already know from our experience in other languages, simplifying their adoption. However, it is important to consider the deterministic nature of language, so it is important to understand how Bosque implements them and how they should be used to obtain the expected results while respecting the language's paradigm.

In this chapter, we have learned that the nominal type system is advantageous during the learning process since it allows the reasoning of the well-known object-oriented programming to be imitated.

Still, it is important to try to take full advantage of the structures that the language offers, such as collections and sets, and that not every implementation based on object-oriented programming is necessarily idiomatic or will efficiently take advantage of the paradigm that implements the language.

On the other hand, we also saw that in addition to the basic arithmetic, logic, or comparison operators...