Fjölnir (programming language)

Fjölnir (also Fjolnir or Fjoelnir) is a programming language developed by professor Snorri Agnarsson of computer science at Háskóli Íslands (University of Iceland) that was mostly used in the 1980s. The source files usually have the extension fjo or sma.

Fjölnir

Paradigm	procedural, object-oriented
Designed by	Snorri Agnarsson
First appeared	1980s
Typing discipline	strong, dynamic
Scope	lexical
OS	MS-DOS
Filename extensions	.fjo, .fjv, .sma, .ein

Features

Fjölnir is based on the concept of representing programs as trees, and packages by substitutions on trees using algebraic operators. For example, in the Hello World example below, "GRUNNUR" is a package, the block of code between braces is a package, and * is an operator that substitutes names in one package with elements from another. In this case, skrifastreng (which writes a string to the standard output) is imported from "GRUNNUR".

Code examples

;; Hello world in Fjölnir

"hello" < main
{
    main ->
    stef(;)
    stofn
        skrifastreng(;"Hello, world!"),
    stofnlok
}
*
"GRUNNUR"
;

External links

• Fjölnir package (DOS, works in older versions of Windows)
• PDF about Fjölnir (In Icelandic) Archived 2004-12-09 at the Wayback Machine
• 99 Bottles of Beer in Fjölnir
• The original source for both Fjölnir 1 and Fjölnir 2; coded in Fjölnir itself.