strategic-communication
A best-of-breed language with a holistic approach to moving the needle.
Example program
This program prints the numbers 0 to 9 to stdout separated by newlines:
align Engineering and HR with stakeholder engagement
align revenue streams with stakeholder engagement
revamp revenue streams
align Finance and Manufacturing with customer experience
moving forward, think outside the box
deliver customer experience
deliver stakeholder engagement
innovate customer experience
innovate revenue streams
restructure revenue streams to think outside the box
Translated to pseudocode:
stakeholder_engagement = 10 // '\n'
revenue_streams = stakeholder_engagement * -1
customer_experience = 48 // '0'
do {
print(customer_experience)
print(stakeholder_engagement)
customer_experience++
revenue_streams++
} while revenue_streams < 0
More examples can be found in the examples directory.
Register names
There are 8 available registers. Each one starts with a value of 0, and can hold any 32-bit signed integer. They are named as follows:
- customer experience
- revenue streams
- core competencies
- best practices
- stakeholder engagement
- key performance indicators
- return on investment
- assets
Constants
There are 10 constants used to represent literal numbers (more information on using these can be found in the Constant expressions section below):
- 0: HR
- 1: Engineering
- 2: Legal
- 3: PR
- 4: Finance
- 5: Marketing
- 6: R&D
- 7: Sales
- 8: Manufacturing
- 9: Executive Management
Operations
A Strategic Communication program consists of a series of operations separated by newlines.
Unless otherwise denoted, all operands must be register names., Description, Formats, Notes, -----------, -------, -----, increment the value in x, innovate xvalue-add x, decrement the value in x, streamline xoptimize x, multiply the value in x by -1, revamp xoverhaul x, multiply the value in x by 2, amplify xincentivize x, divide the value in x by 2, backburner x, any remainder is discarded, set the value in x to a random number between 0 and 9 inclusive, paradigm shift x, set the value in x to the value in y, align x with y, y can be a register name or a constant expression, set the value in x to the value of y, align y with x, y must be a constant expression, add the value in x to the value in y and store the result in x, synergize x and yintegrate x and y, subtract the value in y from the value in x and store the result in x, differentiate x and y, read a single byte from stdin and store it in x, crowdsource x, if EOF is encountered, the value in x is set to -1, print the value in x to stdout, deliver xproduce x, UTF-8 encoding will be used, define a label called x, moving forward, xgoing forward, x, x can be any string containing no register names or constants, jump to label x, circle back to xrevisit x, x must be a defined label, jump to label x if the value in y is zero, pivot y to x, x must be a defined label, jump to label x if the value in y is negative, restructure y to x, x must be a defined label, ## Constant expressions
A constant expression is a sequence of one or more constants separated by , or and. The value of the expression is the result of concatenating the values of the constants. For example, Engineering has a value of 1 and Marketing has a value of 5, so the expression Engineering and Marketing has a value of 15.
More examples:
Engineering, Marketing, and HR=150Engineering=1HR and Engineering=1(leading zeros are ignored)Marketing, Marketing, Marketing=555
Comments
The syntax of Strategic Communication meets or exceeds the highest standards of corporate discourse, therefore comments are unnecessary and not supported.
Editor support
For those who are not seasoned executives, there is a syntax highlighter made by dnchu for VS Code: https://github.com/dnchu/vscode-strategic-communication
Running a program
To run a Strategic Communication program, download the interpreter for your system from the latest release and provide the path to the source code when running the command.
Windows
strategic-communication.exe examples\hello_world.business
macOS/Linux
./strategic-communication examples/hello_world.business
Building the interpreter
- Clone this repo
- Install Rust
cargo build