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nightly bin+lib track8-program

A programming language running on an emulated 8 track tape

1 stable release

Uses old Rust 2015

1.0.0 Jun 13, 2018

#28 in #esoteric

MIT license

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8track-program

Esolang written upon an 8 track tape. Programs either loop implicitly or through the use of a metal strip on the tape, move down one program.

A program is written using a number of one-character codes, and a cartridge can contain up to 8 programs. Each program can switch between programs on the cartridge, in addition to being able to modify the contents of each tape, run different operations, and manipulate a 8-element stack.

This implementation also provides "cheats" to allow cartridges of more than 8 programs and with a stack larger than 8 elements.

Coding Style

This project also experiments with using an APL-like programming style in rust. For an example of this programming style, see the J Incunabulum.

Dependencies

~2.5MB
~54K SLoC