User:Prajwalmr62/Hoon (programming language)

Hoon is a higher level, strictly typed, static programming language being developed by Urbit. This language is converted to Nock by compiler and gets excecuted on Urbit environment.

History
Hoon is a programming language that is being developed by Urbit. The name hoon is derived from the poem, Tea at the Palaz of Hoon written by Wallace Stevens.

Syntax
Nouns store the data. Vase is a container of nouns. Type of noun is specified by spans. The below program is to create a vase of atoms 42 of span  and 0x2a of span.

Applications
Even though the language is still in alpha mode, as the execution environment of Hoon, Urbit is written mainly as to act as a web server for cloud based personal applications, it can be presumed that the applications, if developed, would be mainly in that area.