My very own, very stupid esoteric programming language

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eafkuor

Posted 21 November 2010 - 11:18 AM

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Hi, I just wanted to let you know about BAM128, an esoteric programming language I invented between yesterday and today. Since I have a decent interpreter now after 1.5 days of programming I decided to create the page on esolang.
You can find the interpreter, its source code and 3 bam128 example programs here.
Enjoy :P

edit: link to the new interpreter

Edited by eafkuor, 22 November 2010 - 05:57 AM.

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Vladimir

Posted 21 November 2010 - 02:05 PM

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Congratulations :) What's the point?

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eafkuor

Posted 21 November 2010 - 03:43 PM

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As a programmer-to-be I like to keep myself constantly trained. And the only way I have to get better, is to program everything that comes into my mind. I wanted to try to implement a simple interpreter, so I made up this little language.
Some people do corossowrds, others play sudoku, I like to make programs ;)

Anyway, there are languages faaaar more "pointless" than mine. Look up malbolge (they had to write a lisp program just to create a malbolge program that prints "hello world")

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Alexander

Posted 21 November 2010 - 05:41 PM

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This looks like an awesome language, good work. Did you need to work with YACC/BISON for grammar parsing? Was it confusing?

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#5
eafkuor

Posted 22 November 2010 - 02:12 AM

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Thanks!
Actually it was pretty easy since the syntax isn't that complex. I just used a kind of finite-state machine, no third party libraries. Now the only major thing missing from the interpreter is the support for nested cycles.
And I still don't know if I should add an instruction to print the numeric value (instead of ascii) and an instruction to take a number as input. What's your suggestion?

edit: now it supports nested cycles

Edited by eafkuor, 22 November 2010 - 05:56 AM.

#6
isuru

Posted 26 November 2010 - 05:39 PM

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Oh man! You are great! Why don't you write some tutorials on programming languages commonly? I am sorry I have no good knowledge to review your language. But I think it is a great work!

Lost!