An esoteric language copied heavily inspired by Excon
Hawklang starts with a pool of 8 bits, and a cache of 8 bits as well. Both automatically start as 00000000.
Hawklang also has a pointer, which automatically starts at position 0
00000000
^
Hawklang has 8 instructions. Listed below are the instructions, and their actions.
> | Clears the Pool (to 00000000), and moves the pointer back to position 0
/ | Moves the pointer right one bit.
\ | Moves the pointer left one bit.
^ | Inverses the bit that is under the pointer (1 -> 0, 0 -> 1)
! | Inverses all the bits in the pool
: | Reads the pool as a 8-bit integer and prints out the ascii value of it
. | Saves pool to cache
, | Dumps cache to pool
+ | Clears cache
Any other characters that are not >/^!:., are considered comments.
If you are dealing with, for example, the letter H, which in binary is only 7 bits long (1001000),
make sure you leave an extra zero before the first 1 (01001000), so that the parser doesn't read it as 10010000!
(10010000 as an ascii character is \x90, which is definitely not H!)
example1.hawk | Prints the letter 'A'
'A' in binary is 01000001 so we need to flip the bits at position 1 and position 7
> First clear the pool (optional)
/^ Move the pointer left one bit and flip that bit
//////^ Move the pointer left six more bits and flip the last bit
:> Print out the pool (A) and clear the pool
example2.hawk | Prints Hello world!
>/^///^: Prints 'H' (01001000) (Note the beginning zero)
>/^/^///^//^: Prints 'e' (01100101)
>/^/^//^/^:. Prints 'l' and saves it to cache (01101100)
>,:+ Prints 'l' from cache and clears cache
>!^///^:. Prints 'o' and saves it to cache (01101111)
>//^: Prints ' ' (00100000)
>!^////^: Prints 'w' (01110111)
>,:+ Prints 'o' from cache and clears cache
>/^/^/^///^: Prints 'r' (01110010)
>/^/^//^/^: Prints 'l' (01101100)
>/^/^///^: Prints 'd' (01100100)
>//^/////^: BANG (00100001)
>////^//^: Prints a newline (00001010)
The following can also be written like this:
>/^///^:>/^/^///^//^:>/^/^//^/^:.>,:+>!^///^:.>//^:>!^////^:>,:+>/^/^/^///^:>/^/^//^/^:>/^/^///^:>//^/////^:>////^//^:
If you want to use the .exe file, simply run hawklang.exe to access the Hawklang REPL, or open command prompt,
navigate to the directory hawklang.exe is in, and run hawklang [insert hawk file here] to run a hawklang file.
cheers, Warhawk947