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How difficult is it to learn SIMPOL?

April 26, 2017difficult learn simpol

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How difficult is it to learn SIMPOL?

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SIMPOL has been designed from the start to be very easy to learn. Superbase Basic Language (SBL) has over 270 keywords that can then be combined in different ways and with various parameters. SIMPOL has only about 20 keywords of which only about 10 are regularly used. Everything else in SIMPOL is an object. The IDE provides a great deal of help using SIMPOL, since it can display intelligent help in various places as you are working on your program, including the function prototype and members of your functions and types. At the same time it is not required to create user defined types if you do not wish, the language can be used fairly effectively for functional programming. To get the hang of the language can take an hour or two and to learn what is available in terms of objects provided may require a little reading in the documentation, but it should be possible to produce usable code quite quickly.