langur

Langur is an open-source imperative/functional language. It deals with extremely large and small numbers natively using arbitrary-precision decimal floating point. Its principles of design are sensibility to humans, accuracy in calculation, and a clean, expressive syntax.

Influences include at least the following languages.

Perl, Go, Python, C#, C ... and Monkey

The following is a partial list of features.

highly expressive switch expressions
semi-integrated regex
ISO 8601 date/time literals
duration literals
decimal floating point for numbers
number constants pi, tau, phi, e
optional integer basex notation for any base from 2 to 36, such as -16xFF or 2x1010_0010
automated for loop over an list, hash, or string, or over a range
set a for loop value as it executes
useful built-in functions such as map(), fold(), filter(), X(), mapX()
first-order functions, including closures
immutable or mutable declarations
decoupling assignments
block quote (similar to a "HEREDOC")
indexing strings by code point
indexing by lists
chained string interpolation modifiers
truncating and floor division operators; also remainder and modulus, exponent and root
optional database operators (null propagating)
catching exceptions without explicit try blocks
a read() function that validates input

books

I initially developed langur following very useful books by Thorsten Ball (1, 2), but it has changed dramatically since.

I wrote a book explaining the design of some of langur's advanced features, in its stack-based virtual machine. See a free preview chapter at opcodebook.com.