Genero BDL is an English-like programming language, easy to write and read.
Lettercase insensitivity
Genero Business Development Language (BDL) is case insensitive, making no distinction between uppercase and lowercase letters, except within quoted strings.
Whitespace separators
Genero Business Development Language (BDL) is free-form, like C or Pascal, and generally ignores TAB characters, LINEFEED characters, comments, and extra blank spaces between statements or statement elements. You can freely use these whitespace characters to enhance the readability of your source code.
Quotation marks
In the Genero BDL language, string literals are delimited by single (') or double (") quotation marks.
Escape symbol
The Genero Business Development Language (BDL) compiler treats a backslash ( \ ) as the default escape symbol, and treats the immediately following symbol as a literal, except for special characters such as \r or \t.
Statement terminator
Genero Business Development Language (BDL) requires no statement terminators, but you can use the semicolon ( ; ) as a statement terminator in some cases.
Comments
For clarity and to simplify program maintenance, it is recommended that you document your code by including comments in your source files.
Identifiers
A Genero Business Development Language (BDL) identifier is a character string that is declared as the name of a program entity.
Preprocessor directives
Genero Business Development Language (BDL) supports preprocessing instructions, which allow you to write macros and conditional compilation rules.