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Offline Calloway

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Try to Recreate a Small Interpreter/Compiler
« on: July 17, 2017, 11:55:00 pm »
A small challenge for if your bored
Here is what Small is


If you wanna know how it works:
the command '+' adds 1 to the counter
the command '.' prints the ascii character that the counter is on
that's it


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Re: Try to Recreate a Small Interpreter/Compiler
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2017, 02:14:46 pm »
lol?

Code: QB64: [Select]
  1.     sleep
  2.         case "+": cnt = cnt + 1
  3.         case ".": print chr$(cnt); " "; "("; cnt; ")"
  4.     end select
  5.     _keyclear
  6.  

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Re: Try to Recreate a Small Interpreter/Compiler
« Reply #2 on: July 18, 2017, 09:34:18 pm »
I wouldn't even call that a language; it's a data encoding at best.

It does, however, remind me of Brainfuck, which *is* Turing complete: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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Re: Try to Recreate a Small Interpreter/Compiler
« Reply #3 on: July 18, 2017, 09:48:56 pm »
I wouldn't even call that a language; it's a data encoding at best.

It does, however, remind me of Brainfuck, which *is* Turing complete: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
It's what it's mainly based off of