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Show HN: Tru – An Esoteric Language with Brackets

by stockkid on 2/24/21, 9:26 AM with 2 comments

• by stockkid on 2/24/21, 9:28 AM

  Hi everyone, I wanted to share a language I made that only uses a series of bracket characters. All operations are prefix-free, meaning one can follow another without ambiguity.

  The following program prints "Hello, world!"

    (0)(10)(33)(100)(108)(114)(111)(119)(32)(44)(111)(108)(108)(101)(72)>><<[<><>><<>><<]>>><<
  

  The following prints 25th Fibonacci number:

    (1)(25)(1)><>(1)(0)><>(1)>>>>>><<[(0)><>(1)>>>>>><<[>><>(1)><>>><<(0)><>>>><>(1)><><<<>><>>>><>(0)><>>><>(1)>>>>>><<](0)](1)><><><>><>>>><<

• by fjfaase on 2/24/21, 9:42 AM

  I think we should not confuse obfuscation with esoteric. To add some more obfuscation use nested round brackets to indicate the numbers, so () = 0, (()) = 1, ((())) = 2, and so on.