ITECH5403 - Language Design Essay: Banking Domain Programming

This essay presents the design of a new object-oriented programming language, PINT, tailored for the banking domain. The report begins with an introduction to the language's purpose and addresses the challenges inherent in the banking sector, such as regulatory compliance, security, and cross-border transactions. The essay justifies the choice of cross-compilation as the compilation method and discusses memory management techniques. Key features of PINT are then examined, including simplicity, orthogonality, data types, syntax design, support for abstraction, expressivity, and type checking, with each feature's rationale and impact on the banking sector's operational efficiency. The discussion emphasizes how PINT aims to address the complexities of the banking domain, offering solutions for various banking procedures and aiming to improve the overall system performance and maintainability of banking software. The report also highlights the advantages of PINT such as enhanced simplicity, flexibility, and expressiveness, making it a suitable tool for programmers and the specific requirements of the banking sector.