Twimp

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The Twimp programming language was invented by User:Zzo38 in 2004. Some information can be found in http://zzo38computer.cjb.net/esoteric/twimp/ But now I forget mostly how it works (but see the documentation and PHP code).

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[edit] Features

  • There is no way to store numbers.
  • Input is a nybble at a time, but output is a byte at a time. This makes a cat program to be a bit long
  • If you type AVARTA KADAVRA then it returns a fatal error "Fatal: Bad Magic"
  • There are 4 built-in constants: ZERO (actually 1, to confuse you), ONE (actually 0, to confuse me), PI (set to 3, in case you are too much religious), and HOURSINADAY (which can be used as a filter criterion).
  • Forced constants are in roman numerals
  • You can type a program without ever using the shift key
  • You can deal with "half-references" with the REF and PULL commands
  • The program can be drunk by using DRINK command
  • Duck-sauce replaces the entire equasion with zero

[edit] Preprocessor Commands

  • ABREV (abbreviation)
  • INSTRUCT
  • ACT
  • ACTS
  • NPR (Combination of NEW, PUSHLN, and RET)

[edit] Program Commands

  • RET
  • PUSHL
  • PUSHLN
  • OUT
  • POP
  • MOVE
  • KEYOUT
  • KEYIN

[edit] Examples

Copy input to output (cat): 

NEW 1
NEW 2
PUSHLN 1
PUSHLN 2
-NO
NEW 3
COPY 1 2
MOVE 1 3
COPY 2 2
MOVE 2 3
COPY 3 2
COPY 3 []
NEW 4
FORGET
PUSHLN 4
STEP IV
POP 3 1
OF [6-[3]]
NEW 5
PUSHLN 5
RET 4
ON 5
OUT [[[=====]--[]]-16]
RET 2
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