- Character Sets

o ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY (Alphabetic Upper Case)

o abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy (Alphabetic Lower Case)
o 0123456789 (Numbers)

Commercial At @ Question Mark ? Full Stop . No-Break Space

Bracket [] Solidus / Plus Sign + Semicolon ;

Curly Brackets {} Reverse Solidus \ Equal Sign = Colon :

Exclamation Mark ! Vertical Line | Hyphen-Minus – Comma ,

Low Line _ Quotation Mark ” Asterisk * Ampersand &

Percent Sign % Tilde~ Apostrophe` Number Sign #

Angle Brackets <> Dollar sign $ Newline

Tab

- Special Characters

# Escape char ~ NOT <: Less or Equal

#tab Tab % OR >: Greater or Equal

PLUS Plus @ AND << Less than

MINUS Minus : Equal to >> Greater than

TAKES Equal <…> Code Block #” Quote literal

:: Single Line Comment -||- Block Comment <> Code Block

#: Colon Literal #nline New Line ? Condition

Identifiers

- No spaces.
- Can contain only lower case alphabetic (a-z) and characters.

Operation Symbols

- Arithmetic
o TIMES Multiplication
o DIVBY Division
o PLUS Addition
o MINUS Subtraction
- Logical
 o @ AND
o % OR
o ~ NOT
- Relational
o : Equal to
o <: Less or Equal to
o >: Greater or Equal to
o << Less than
o >> Greater than
- Assignment
o TAKES Equal

Keywords

- Rules
o Should be always be in UPPERCASE
o Can be used as a variable name, but should be in lowercase
o No spaces between, should be used as is
- Reserved Words
o VOICEOUT For output
o VOICEINTO For input
o TAKE Specifies a subprogram to be included in the program, should be used
with $
o VAR Defines the data types integer, float, char, double
o START Specifies the beginning of the main program or statements.
o EXECUTE Provides iteration. Statements within will be executed repeatedly,
should be combined with UNTILto specify. // Do While
o UNTIL Provides iteration. Statements within will be executed repeatedly.
Contains the expression when to stop instructions within EXECUTE. //while w/ limit
o DURING Executes instructions during or while the specified expression is true.
//while
o FINAL Similar to default and else, instructions within will be executed if
preceding expressions or premises are not true. // else
o BETWEEN Short version for checking if a specified value is within a given range
(both exclusive).
o TAKES Assigns a specified value to a specified variable. // equal declaration
o SKIP Will skip all succeeding statements, useful in iterations. //Continue
o END Specifies the end of main program or statements.

Remarks

- ::… Single Line Comment

- -| … |- Block Comment

Fixed Format
- Importing
o Dollar sign followed by TAKEthen then filename string
o Filename should start with alphanumeric and should contain only one period for
extensions, not with any other symbol.
o Should be only done before theSTART keyword
 $TAKE “<filename.extension>”

All formats beyond and below this lineshould be only done within the START and END keyword

- Declaring =
o Datatype must be typed first followed by a low line (_) then the desired name.
o Immediate initialization allowed
 VAR_fltPriceTAKES 0.0 ::variable name is fltPricewith value 0.0
 VAR_Name ::variable name is Name with no value
- Initializing
o Variable name followed by TAKESthen desired value
 fltPriceTAKES 5.00
 Name TAKES ‘a’
- Incrementing
o Variable namefollowedby PLUSthen the rate or value of increment
 ScorePLUS5
- Decrementing
o Variable namefollowedby MINUS then the rate or value of decrement
 Score MINUS 5
- Commenting
o For Block Commenting-| |-
 A hyphen-minus sign (-) followed by vertical line (|, not ‘L’) and vice versa to
close
 -|this is a comment
another comment
another comment
|-
o For Single Line::
 Two colons
 ::Summer Boy
 ::Very Easy
- Escaping
o Makes specified symbol to be printed as is,using number sign #
 VOICEOUT “Hello #NLINE World!”
 VOICEOUT “#”Time is Gold.#””
- Printing values from variables
o Using number sign #to extract value from variables
 VOICEOUT “Hello #name”
 VOICEOUT “Price is #fltPrice”
- Scanning
 o Using VOICEINTO
 VOICEINTO <var1>,<var2>,<varN>
- Printing
o Using VOICEOUT
 VOICEOUT“My name is #myName. #NLINE”
 VOICEOUT“My name is Pedro. #NLINE”

- Conditional Statements
o Using question mark ? and FINALreturns true or false
 <expression1> @ <expression2> % <expressionN>?<
VOICEOUT “Less than 5”
>
FINAL<
VOICEOUT “Greater than 5”
>
- Iterations
o Expressions placed should be declared and initialized first
o EXECUTEand UNTIL
 EXECUTE<
<statements>
>UNTIL[<expression1> @ <expression2> % <expressionN>]
o Using DURING
 DURING[<expression1> @ <expression2> % <expressionN>]<
<statements>

Delimiters

- Line Terminator Newline

- Code Block limiter <…>
- Condition limiter […]
- String/Output Limiter “…”