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# `prc`, a compiler for the Prose programming language
> **IMPORTANT NOTE**: Prose is still under heavy development. It is therefore
> not ready for production yet.
Prose is a new and small programming language that aims for readability
and native interoperability with C. Its syntax, while a bit distant from
ALGOL-like languages like C, should still be readable to most programmers.
Most remarkably, Prose avoids sigils such as `{}`, `$` or any other kind of
symbol, in favour of simple and readable English-like statements.
The only exception is `*`, which is used for comments:
A hello world example:
```
* this is a comment
public function main
linkage
status word
procedure returning status
display "hello world"
set status to 0
```
As opposed to other programming languages such as Python, Prose follows
free-form syntax, and therefore the same program can be written in any format:
```
public function main linkage status word procedure returning status display "hello world" set status to 0
```
Prose follows the C ABI and also inherits its type system:
```
public function main
imports "cstd"
linkage
status cint
argc cint
argv pointer to array of etc byte
storage
fd cint
procedure using argc argv returning status
display "argc=" argc ", argv=" argv
call socket using AF_INET SOCK_STREAM 0 returning fd
display "fd=" fd
call close using fd
set status to 0
```
## LICENSE
```
prc, a compiler for the Prose programming language.
Copyright (C) 2026 Xavier Del Campo Romero
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
```
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