TONAL

A programming language concept.

TONAL aims to be a fad-free, practical, any-purpose programming language for large systems, small tools, and everything in between; a language that helps beginners to write like experts, and experts to write like beginners again.

Code that runs now should always run. Today’s unimaginable code is common knowledge tomorrow.

This language is under active prototyping. The purpose of this website is currently to provide a direction to the language.

Quick Tour for Beginners

New to programming, or new to exploring languages, start here without all the language theory jargon.

Quick Tour for Converts

No talk of Monads, hit the ground running with familiar elements of other languages, then ramp up to the features that simplify coding life.

Principles of Operations

What’s TONAL all about? Seriously? When you get right down to it?

DLOG

Musings about programming language design and the practice of programming and blogging about it.

Deep Dive

In-depth look into TONAL’s design decisions. You can’t always design the language you want, but sometimes, you design the language you need.

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The TONAL language implementation is licensed under GPLv3. Please consider purchasing a commercial-friendly license exception.

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