Re: Conlang Proglangs

Emaelivpeith Peter Clark:
>I don't know about all of that. Seriously, do a little research on Turing
>machines. This was invented even before "silicon computer logic" and it's
>still in effect today. All you need is six "states" or instructions and some
>way of storing data (this isn't necessary to a Turing machine, but it's nice
>for your programmer, trust me). Or, if you would prefer to look at something
>very similar, check out Brainf**k, which has only eight instructions.
>Naturally, you probably wouldn't want to keep using a Turing machine, or BF,
>but it should hopefully give you a good place to start off from. After all,
>this is where all the other programming langauges had to start, way back in
>the primordial past. Work on "de-obfuscating" BF, keeping in mind how the
>Asha'ille might conceive of operations. Would they prefer normal notation (1
>+ 2), Polish Notation (+ 1 2) or Reverse Polish Notation (1 2 +)? Stuff like
>that.
It's much more complicated than just me not knowing about the fundamentals
of designing a language.  There is this substance on Cresaea that's like a
physical "life force" (called |lorán|) that connects living organisms.
Eventually they learn how to directly control it -- but they way they
"program" it is 1/2 programming and 1/2 telepathy.

Therefore my programming language would only be a _model_ of how lorán
"programming" works.  Instead of a required "#include <stdio>" at the
beginning of a file, for example, you'd be required to "bond lorán".  :P


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