[bagnalla]

HolyC is great -- default arguments and built-in exception handling are big pluses over C. There are a few shortcomings, though, such as the lack of short-circuiting logical operators and some unfortunate behavior related to variable declarations within nested scopes (just avoid doing that IMO).

[andyjohnson0]

> lack of short-circuiting logical operators

I'm curious about the reason for this - does anyone know why they were implemented this way?

[otakucode]

Probably because God commanded it.

[bfuller]

You are being downvoted but many many times have I asked a question regarding templeos and that is the actual answer

[zaarn]

The issues can probably be fixed by writing a bit of a better compiler, HolyC2 maybe?

[bagnalla]

I've thought about using this Lisp interpreter to bootstrap a compiler for a new language, probably targeting HolyC. If someone were to write some decent lexer/parser generator tools in HolyC it would go a long way in making something like that possible.

[dawnbreez]

Call it Protestant.

[breakingcups]

Alternatively, HolyC++ or HolyD.

[mmjaa]

HolyMoly, duh.

[zaarn]

Ideally a HolyC++ would be able to compile normal HolyC without any changes to the source while also adding new stuff and while not being C++ in the process. That all would be very neat.

[snvzz]

More like unholy.