Hoon is Urbit's high-level programming language. It compiles to Nock, Urbit's low-level language.
https://urbit.org/docs/glossary/
Hoon code makes heavy use of non-alphanumeric symbols. Reading off code aloud using the proper names of ASCII symbols is tedious, so we've mapped syllables to symbols:
ace [1 space] gap [>1 space, nl] pat @