Design Principles

What were the driving pillars of Quarrel's syntax and semantics?

Anti-Angloanthropocentrism

Programming is an English language club.

Common Keyboard Symbols Only

No unicode and no letters.

Multi-Paradigm

Has to be flexible to different developers and problems

Operators & Flows

Focus on providing operators and flows first-and-foremost--especially because symbols look more intuitive as connective operators (unary, binary, ternary).

Concurrency-First

Provide truly "native" concurrency primitives