Dashrep, the powerful text

What are the most important advantages of the Dashrep language?

The ability to generate nearly anything from templates is built into the language. This powerful capability greatly eliminates the need for complex executable code. As a simple example, a template can switch between a singular and plural form of a word — such as “person” versus “people” — based on a data-specific count.

What else makes the Dashrep language so powerful and fast?

The language includes powerful list-manipulation actions that are missing from almost all other programming languages. Such high-level actions enable a line of simple Dashrep code to accomplish what otherwise would require an external library or multiple lines of code.

What other advantages does the Dashrep language provide?

Debugging takes less time because bugs in Dashrep code typically produce symptoms that readily suggest the cause of the bug. Syntax errors (which waste time) are rare — because the syntax is so simple.

Why do we need yet another programming language?

Generating text using recursive templates is not built into existing languages, yet generating text using templates is the most important part of coding an interactive website or web app. The most popular programming languages are great for calculating numbers, but they are awkward to use for manipulating text, as evidenced by the need for quotation marks and concatenation operators.

What disadvantages does the Dashrep language have?

Currently the Dashrep compiler generates runtime code that handles numeric calculations much slower than other programming languages. Specifically each numeric calculation converts numbers from text format into binary format and then back into text format.