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文言文編程語言。A programming language for the ancient Chinese. Try it online.

CHANGELOG

夫唐、虞之世，結繩而足治，屈指而足算。是時豈料百代之後，計算機械之巧，精於公輸之木鳶，善於武侯之流馬；程式語言之多，繁若《天官》之星宿，奇勝《山經》之走獸。鼠、蟹、鑽、魚，或以速稱。蛇、象、駱、犀，各爭文采。方知鬼之所以夜哭，天之所以雨粟。然以文言編程者 ，似所未有。此誠非文脈之所以傳，文心之所以保。嗟予小子，遂有斯志。然則數寸之烏絲猶覆於頭，萬卷之素書未破於手；一身長羈於遠邦，兩耳久曠于雅言。然夫文章者吾之所宿好，程式者偶承時人之謬譽。故希孟不慚年少，莊生不望無涯。乃作斯言。誠未能嘔瀝長吉之心血，亦庶幾免於義山之流沫。既成之後，復學干將鑄劍而自飼，越王嚐糞而當先。自謂偶追《十書》之筆意，但恨少八家之淋漓。此子山所謂士衡撫掌而甘心，平子見陋而固宜。然則雖實覆甕之質，尚存斧正之望；雖乏呂相之金，易字之渴蓋同。此亦開源之大義，吾輩之所以勉勵也。一笑。

Wenyan:

吾有一數。曰三。名之曰「甲」。
為是「甲」遍。
	吾有一言。曰「「問天地好在。」」。書之。
云云。

Equivalent JavaScript:

var n = 3;
for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
	console.log("問天地好在。");
}

Output:

問天地好在。
問天地好在。
問天地好在。

Punctuations and newlines are completely optional (just like they are in Classical Chinese), so the above code is equivalent to:

吾有一數曰三名之曰「甲」為是「甲」遍吾有一言曰「「問天地好在」」書之云云

More sophisticated examples, such as the Sieve of Eratosthenes, Quicksort, Mandelbrot set, and Tower of Hanoi, can be found in the ./examples folder.

• Natural Language Programming sharing the grammar of Classical Chinese
• Compiles to JavaScript, Python, or Ruby
• Turing complete
• An Online IDE
• Examples to get started
• A packages manager wyg(文淵閣) and awesome packages from the community.

• Plugin for VSCode by antfu
• Plugin for Vim by voldikss
• Plugin for Sublime Text by absop

Install the compiler by

npm install -g @wenyan/cli

Try run the included examples, e.g.:

wenyan examples/helloworld.wy
# will output: 問天地好在。

You can now translate JavaScript to wenyan-lang using the wenyanizer by zxch3n.

• JVM compiler by MagicLu550

Check out our Wiki pages

• Syntax Cheatsheet
• Standard Library Cheatsheet
• Library Packages
• Contributing
• API Specifications
• Browser Runtime
• Feature Requests
• Known Issues