Hi5ive: The Simplest Computer Language

The Approach

To Creating the Simplest Computer Language

Every computer has to have a Language in which to write the applications and operating system. [Most computers use several Languages.] It would be nice if that Language were simple enough to use that if you needed to do something simple that wasn’t provided for by the computer, you could whip up a little application to do that for you in a matter of minutes. And, even if you needed to do something complex, you could still use this same simple-to-use Language.

A computer Programming Language is a group of Commands which tell the computer what to do.

If you could devise the simplest computer Language possible, how would you go about it? Perhaps you’d say, Who needs a computer Language? Well computer Languages are used to write all those apps you use. Computer Languages are used to write websites. And having a computer Language available to do simple tasks that aren’t available by clicking somewhere in an app, would come in handy.

Perhaps you’d come up with a graphical or picture based Language. But sometimes it would be nice to just type a few simple Statements and have your computer do what you want. Perhaps your computer Language would combine Statements, images, and cursor or finger motions into one simple Language.

My approach to creating the simplest computer Programming Language was to look at all the Commands or Statements in various Programming Languages and combine those that did basically the same thing, thus reducing the number of Commands and simplifying the Language. Then I came