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Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings

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peak thread · 71 comments
447 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-04-24
447 pts

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The last program on the examples page⁰ truly is amazing: A guy (called Piet!) saw an artwork that reminded him of Piet (the lang) and tried executing it¹. > It ran! [...] This is probably the first time in history that a graphic artist has painted a functionally workable computer program by accident. [0]: https://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html [1]: https://gitlab.fabcity.hamburg/hofalab/piet-get-together

Some of the sample programs are kind of amazing: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html Hilarious idea.

Awesome, I love Piet! I wrote the "Alpha" example program on http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html as an exercise to learn Piet while solving Card #234 of Perplex City - http://perplexcitycardcatalog.com/1/234/ All of DM's esoteric languages are pretty interesting: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/

Cool! Seems like I can teach my 2nd grade friends some 'colorful' programming. Are others allowed to contribute to this language? I would like to do so in a few days... (well... I have my exams going on now, so in the vacation for sure)

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