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HolyC Dead

HolyC
HolyC
KindProgramming language
Appeared2005
Ended2018
StatusDead
CreatorTerry A. Davis
FamilyC
Sourcetempleos.org ↗

Terry Davis's JIT-compiled C dialect and the sole language of TempleOS — one person wrote the compiler, the assembler, the OS, and every program it ran; finished the way a temple is finished.

Descended from C
Created by Terry A. Davis
Things written in it TempleOS

Terry A. Davis's HolyC (2003–2013) — TempleOS's own C dialect — is a JIT/AOT compiled language integrated into the shell, the editor, and the kernel: `DocTerm`, `DocSprite`, and divine random numbers as API.\n\nIt is the only language whose spec is a temple, and the most singular programming artifact ever built by one person.

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Timeline

2005Begins as the J/LoseThos toolchain
2013Renamed HolyC with TempleOS
2018Davis dies; source frozen

Sources

  1. templeos.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HolyC