This looks like the result of a drug-and-alcohol-fueled unplanned pregnancy between COBOL and Ada.
Yeah, plus a bit of APL - it's not visible in this snippet, but Avail uses a lot of strange unicode characters/symbols. The `→` in `resp_bytes→string` is one example, but there are many more symbols used: http://www.availlang.org/about-avail/documentation/unicode-c...
Re:Avail Programming Language
by markvangulik on Friday May 25, 2018 @12:37PM
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If you grab the development branch, you can use the modular lexers to make that a little bit clearer. If memory serves, “a socket address from <192, 168, 1, 1> and 80” can now be written “192.168.1.1:80”. Not because that syntax is designed into the language, but because the language is designed to allow an IPv4 lexer to be defined within the language. See distro/src/avail/Avail.avail/IO.avail/Address.avail:149 for the actual Avail code that lexes (produces tokens from module source) IPv4 addresses.
I'm pasting a link because I added on-hover popups explaining parts of the snippet, but here is the sample itself: