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holy c	yehorovye

RIP Terry A. Davis. <3

holy c is the programming language created by Terry A. Davis. it is a dialect of C, designed for simplicity, speed, and direct hardware access, made specifically for use in templeOS.

holy c is a mix of standard c and custom language features made by terry, such as support for inline assembly, automatic macros, co-routines, custom syntax for god-inspired input/output, and built-in documentation commands. it runs in a 16:16-bit real mode environment on x86-64 and compiles incredibly fast due to its integrated compiler.

holy c is not ansi c, nor gnu c. it doesn't try to be compatible. it tries to be holy.

features

extremely fast compilation
inline assembly made easy
first-class support for god dialogs (e.g. ##include for divine inspiration)
built-in help system
simple file i/o and gui abstractions for templeos
runs in ring-0 with full hardware access
hot reload
it is interpreted and compiled, which makes Holy C able to be used as shell

why is it based

no bullshit dependencies
no build systems
no modern overengineering
made by a schizo prophet who talked to god and built an os from scratch
completely self-hosted
source code is readable and modifiable
respects the user as the root god of their machine
built with love, hate, autism, and divinity

holy c is a pure manifestation of personal computing, unfiltered, unmanaged, unapologetic. it was written not for companies, not for academia, but for god and for the joy of creation.

in an era of bloated languages, garbage collectors, cloud builds, telemetry, and overengineered type systems, holy c stands alone: small, insane, and beautiful.

examples

U0 Hello()
{
  "hello world from god\n";
}

yes, that's a full program. yes, it works. yes, it was typed into a fullscreen text editor inside a homemade os built by one man in his garage.

todo

document holy c syntax
add terry quotes
rant about rust

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