If you already know another language and want to check out Profan 'in a nutshell', this page is for you!
Officially called Profan2, this is an easy-to-use procedural programming language.
It has been written in Borland Delphi and is considerably high-level.
Common things like commands, functions, operators and variables are all present.
Profan is much like BASIC except for its functions, which are more like Pascal because they can be nested infinitely.
Part of a simple Profan application's source code displayed in the Editor
The major advantage of this language is that it is easy-to-use but still capable of advanced techniques.
The major disadvantage is that in terms of execution speed it cannot compare to languages such as C.
If speed is very important, for example when your program uses algorithms that involve a lot of calculation, it is possible to write a seperate DLL with e.g. MASM32 and call it from your Profan application.
Interested? Check out a short, 1-page description of the Profan language.
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