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Ezhil Programming

Ezhil is an open source programming language designed for native Tamil speakers to learn computer programming. The syntax and keywords are based on Tamil grammar and logic to be intuitive for Tamil speakers. It is the first freely available programming language in Tamil. Example programs shown include printing text, a guessing game, file I/O, and turtle graphics to draw yin-yang symbols.

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Ezhil Programming

Ezhil is an open source programming language designed for native Tamil speakers to learn computer programming. The syntax and keywords are based on Tamil grammar and logic to be intuitive for Tamil speakers. It is the first freely available programming language in Tamil. Example programs shown include printing text, a guessing game, file I/O, and turtle graphics to draw yin-yang symbols.

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Ezhil (programming language)

Ezhil, in Tamil language script (Tamil: எழில், romanized: Eḻil, lit. 'beauty', Tamil
pronunciation: [eɻil̪ ]), is a compact, open source, interpreted, programming language,
originally designed to enable native-Tamil speaking students, K-12 age-group to
learn computer programming, and enable learning numeracy and computing, outside of
linguistic expertise in predominately English language-based computer systems.
In the Ezhil programming language, Tamil keywords and language-grammar are chosen to
easily enable the native Tamil speaker write programs in the Ezhil system. Ezhil allows easy
representation of computer program closer to the Tamil language logical constructs equivalent
to the conditional, branch and loop statements in modern English based programming
languages. Ezhil is the first freely available programming language in the Tamil language and
one of many known non-English-based programming languages. The language was officially
announced in July 2009, while it has been developed since late 2007.

Description[edit]
The syntax of Ezhil is broadly similar to that of BASIC: blocks of code are run in sequential
order, or via functions definitions, in a common control flow structures include while , and if .
The termination of function block and statement blocks should have the termination keyword,
similar to END in BASIC. Declarations are not necessary as Ezhil is a dynamic typed language,
though type conversions must be made explicitly. Ezhil has built-in types for Numbers, Strings,
Logicals and Lists.
Goals[edit]

 Educational: Ezhil language is targeted toward K-12 students, and native-Tamil speakers,
to learn elementary computer science principle
 Intuitive: Ezhil language syntactic sugar is arranged to allow a sentence structure closer to
the head final Tamil language, where the usual word order is SOV, in contrast to
the SVO order of English.
Features[edit]

 Arithmetic and logical operations, precedence indicated with parenthesis


 Over 350+ builtins - many of them commonly found in the Python standard library
 Procedural programming using functions, supporting recursion, call-by-value etc.
 Ezhil as a language - it is not a macro-processor, and it is a complete compiler-front-end
 Ezhil language has syntax highlighting support for Notepad++ and Emacs
Keywords[edit]
Conditional Statements are modeled after the IF-ELSEIF-ELSE statement . Loop control
statements deriving from the WHILE statements are chosen. The function declaration syntax
is kept simple. Details include the print statement, and the flow control statements below.

1.- : PRINT statement - பதிப்பி


2.- : BREAK statement - நிறுத்து
3.- : CONTINUE statement - த ொடர்
4.- : RETURN statement - பின்த ொடு
5.- : IF-ELSEIF-ELSE-statement - ஆனொல், இல்லைஆனொல், இல்லை
6.- : END-statement - முடி
7.- : FUNCTION-statement - நிரல்பொ ம்
8.- : WHILE-statement - வலர

Type system[edit]
Ezhil has four basic types, for Numbers, Strings, Logicals and Lists. It does not allow creation
of new types, being a procedural language without structures or objects.

Language - control structures, function declarations and operators grammar[edit]


Standard language grammar for control structures for Ezhil language is given below,
Ezhil programs in Notepad++ syntax highlighting mode
If-else statement[edit]

@( CONDITION ) ஆனொல்
#True branch
இல்லை
#False branch
முடி

Loop statement[edit]

@( CONDITION ) வலர
#LOOP BODY
முடி

Operators[edit]
Standard logical operators, equality "==", inequality "!=", arithmetic comparison ">=",
"<=",">","<" are supported. Arithmetic operators like "+","-","*","/" indicate standard plus,
minus, product, division. Modulo is denoted by "%", and exponent by "^" characters.
Comments[edit]
'#' character denotes a single-line comment from the point to end-of-line. Multi-line comments
are not defined.
Function declaration[edit]

நிரல்பொ ம் [FUNCTION_NAME] ( ARGLIST )


[FUNCTION BODY]
முடி

Variable scoping, and visibility[edit]


Ezhil supports only call-by-value, and copies all data structures on function invocations.
Globals are not supported. Recursion is supported and functions invocation copies variables.

Implementations[edit]
Current Ezhil implementation[4] is tightly integrated with the Python runtime. Ezhil interpreter
is based on a readline-like CLI, while it can also be run in a batch mode. The interactive mode
consumes programs as UTF-8 encoded text and builds a tree, using a compiler front-end, to
build an AST, and executes it using the Python objects build from this AST.

Examples[edit]
Hello world[edit]
The following is a Hello world program in Ezhil:

# மிழில் ஒரு எடுத்துக் ொட்டு

பதிப்பி "வணக் ம் Vijay!"


பதிப்பி "உைக வணக் ம்"
பதிப்பி "******* நன்றி!. *******"
exit()

Guessing game[edit]
The following is a guessing game with 10-chances to guess a number between [1-100].

பதிப்பி "வணக் ம், விதி விலையொட்டுக்கு வரு !"

# ஒவ்தவொரு முலை ஒரு புதிய விதி க லவ


seed( 1729 + 500*random() )
எண் = randint(1,100)

# 10 வொய்ப்பு லை த ொடுக்
வொய்ப்பு = 0

@( வொய்ப்பு < 10 ) வலர


பதிப்பி "நொன் என் இ யத்தில் எண் [1-100] ஒன்று நிலனக்கிகைன்"
பதிப்பி "நொன் என்ன நிலனக்கிகைன் என்று த ரியுமொ?"
guess = உள்ளீடு ( "Guess/யூகிக் >>" )
வொய்ப்பு = வொய்ப்பு + 1
#பதிப்பி ( எண் == guess )
#பதிப்பி எண்
@( எண் == guess ) ஆனொல்
பதிப்பி "வொழ்த்துக் ள்! சரியொன பதில்"
exit(0)
முடி

@( எண் < guess ) ஆனொல்


பதிப்பி "உங் ள் உள்ளீடு அதி மொ உள்ைது"
இல்லை
பதிப்பி "உங் ள் உள்ளீடு குலைத்து உள்ைது"
முடி

பதிப்பி "இன்னும் "


பதிப்பி ( 10 - வொய்ப்பு )
பதிப்பி "வொய்ப்புக்குள் மீ முள்ைன முடி"
முடி

பதிப்பி "மன்னிக் வும் : 10 வொய்ப்பு முடிக் முடியவில்லை!"


exit( -1 )

The following is a guessing game with 10-chances to guess a number between [1-100]
File I/O[edit]

# க ொப்புப் பயன்பொடு
fp = க ொப்லப_திை( "names.txt","w")
# நொம் ஒரு பட்டியலில் இருந்து வொர்த்ல லை பயன்படுத் முடியும்
எ = ["இந் ","ஒரு","எழில்"," மிழ்","நிரைொக் ","தமொழி","உ ொரணம்"]
இ=0
@( இ < len(எ) ) வலர
# நொம் ஒவ்தவொரு வரியும் ஒரு எண் மற்றும் வொர்த்ல கசர்க் முடியும்
வரி = str(இ) +" = "+ எடு( எ, இ ) + " \n"
பதிப்பி வரி
க ொப்லப_எழுது( fp,வரி )
இ=இ+1
முடி
#கசமித்து மூட
க ொப்லப_மூடு( fp )

# மறு திைந் க ொப்பு


fp = க ொப்லப_திை( "names.txt")

# மற்றும் உள்ைடக் ங் லை படிக் வும்


வரி ள் = க ொப்லப_படி(fp)

# பயனருக்கு ொண்பிக்
பதிப்பி வரி ள்

# க ொப்பு மூட
க ொப்லப_மூடு( fp )

# ஒரு எடிட்டர் க ொப்பு திைக் , "names.txt". emacs அல்ைது Notepad பயன்படுத் வும்.

Turtle graphics[edit]
The following is a Turtle graphics based example to draw the Yin-Yang symbols.

நிரல்பொ ம் yin(radius, color1, color2)


#turtle_width(3)
turtle_color("black")
turtle_fill(True)
turtle_circle(radius/2., 180)
turtle_circle(radius, 180)
turtle_left(180)
turtle_circle( -1*radius/2.0 , 180 )
turtle_color(color1)
turtle_fill(True)
turtle_color(color2)
turtle_left(90)
turtle_up()
turtle_forward(radius*0.375)
turtle_right(90)
turtle_down()
turtle_circle(radius*0.125)
turtle_left(90)
turtle_fill(False)
turtle_up()
turtle_backward(radius*0.375)
turtle_down()
turtle_left(90)
முடி

நிரல்பொ ம் main()
#turtle_reset()
yin(200, "white", "black")
yin(200, "black", "white")
turtle_ht()
pause( "Done! Hit enter to quit", 5)
முடி

main()

The following is a Turtle graphics based example to draw the Yin-Yang

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