Ubercode is a high level programming language

Programming language

A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behavior of a machine and/or to express algorithms precisely....

 designed by Ubercode Software and released in 2005 for Microsoft Windows. Ubercode is influenced by the Eiffel

Eiffel (programming language)

Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer and Eiffel Software. The design of the language is closely connected with the Eiffel programming method...

 and BASIC

BASIC

BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use - the name is an acronym from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code....

. It has the following design goals:

1. Compilable language - compiled into Windows EXE files.
2. Automatic memory management - memory is allocated / freed automatically, and the language has no memory management primitives.
3. Pre and post conditions - these are run-time assertions which are attached to function declarations, as in Eiffel
   Eiffel (programming language)
   Eiffel is an ISO-standardized, object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer and Eiffel Software. The design of the language is closely connected with the Eiffel programming method...
   
   .
4. High-level data types - resizable arrays, lists and tables may contain arbitrary components.
5. Integrated file handling - primitives for transparent handling of text, binary, CSV, XML and dBase files.
6. Ease of use - language structure is relatively simple, making the language accessible to beginners.

Hello World

Here is the basic Hello world program:

  Ubercode 1 class Hello



  public function main

  code

    call Msgbox("Hello", "Hello World!")

  end function



  end class

Preconditions and Postconditions

Here is an example using pre-

Precondition

In computer programming, a precondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of code or before an operation in a formal specification....

 and postcondition

Postcondition

In computer programming, a postcondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just after the execution of some section of code or after an operation in a formal specification. Postconditions are sometimes tested using assertions within the code itself...

s. In the example, the IntToStr function validates its input as a string before converting it to an integer:

  Ubercode 1 class PrePost



  function IntToStr(in mystr:string[*] out value:integer)

  precond IsDigitStr(mystr)

  code

    call Val(mystr, value)

  end function



  public function main

  code

    call Msgbox("OOP example", "IntToStr(10) = " + IntToStr("10"))

  end function



  end class

External links

• http://www.ubercode.com/ - Ubercode Software
• http://www.ubercode.com/forum - Ubercode Community Forum
  • Language report - PDF copy of Language Reference Manual
• http://isbndb.com/d/book/design_of_very_high_level_computer_languages.html - VHLL principles