Oni Compiler - A brief introduction

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Oni Compiler is my attempt for creating a compiler to compile a terrible language of my own devising. Currently Oni is just a codename, may turn into the real name of the final compiler, may not. It is written in C# due to that being what I'm most familiar with as of late. 

The Oni language incorporates lambda expressions such as in Lambda Calculus or C#'s Lambda Expressions.

Anonymous functions:

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z<-(((INT,INT)(x,y)->(x x * y y * +)),3,5)

In C:

In C: z = 3*3 + 5*5

As you can see from the above example, the Oni language is
A) over-complicated, and
B) uses post-fix arithmetic.

Named functions:

(((INT,INT)(x,y)->(x*x+y*y)), SQUARESUM returns INT) z<-SQUARESUM(3,5)

In C:

int SQUARESUM(int x, int y) { return x*x+y*y; }

Example Programs:

Hello World

PRINT "Hello World

Add User Input

INT X

INT Y

X<-READ

Y<-READ

PRINT (((INT,INT)(a,b)->(a b +)),X,Y)

The above examples of Oni are only a draft, I want to use the creation of the Oni language as a trigger for my to learn a functional language, Haskall or LISP (preferably both).

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