Whizz: Your Esoteric Language that's Short as BF, but Easier to Write
I just made Whizz, an esoteric programming language that is full of capability and possible experimentation. Before I interest you in that, I'll explain to you something. What is an esoteric programming language? An esoteric language (or an esolang, colloquially), is a programming language designed to not fit the coding 'norms' or conventions. Take an example: BF ('BF' is an abbreviation and euphemism of brainf***). A standard language would notate a 'Hello, World!' program as something like: print ( " Hello, World! " ) BF, on the other hand, requires something like this: ++++++++ [ > ++++ [ > ++ > +++ > +++ > + <<<< - ] > + > + > - >> + [ < ] < - ] >> . > ---.+++++++..+++. >> . < -. < .+++.------.--------. >> +. > ++. As you can see, BF, like most esolangs, is different: it's hard to write and a puzzle. Whizz is inspired by BF, as its incrementing, decrementing and looping are inspired by it. I made Whizz because I thought languages like BF were way too monotonous to write. Esolangs should be hard and puzzling to write, but not laborious. BF requires you type '+' as many times you want to increment (without loops): so you have to find shortcuts and unscalable solutions, just to achieve your goal. In Whizz, just type that incrementation repetition count before the '+' sign, and there you have it! These wonderful features that Whizz boasts keep the challenge in esolang-ing, but contradictorily makes it more 'scalable'. Another notable feature is functions: the epitome of order. An example of a Whizz program would be: zeroToNine { [ create variables ] counter 10+ [ track state ] char 48+ [ print this one ] space 32+ [ space char ] ( char!+ [ print and increment char ] counter-; [ decrement counter and end if zero ] space! [ print space ] ) } zeroToNine* This, self explanatorily, outputs '0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9'. Again, in minimized form: c10+n48+s32+(n!+c-;s!) I genuinely hope you experiment with Whizz, and solve puzzles & challenges with it, as if it were BF! Install it