Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings
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HN comment orderThe 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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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-07-04 | Piet: a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings | dood | 9 | 1 |
| 2011-03-21 | Piet, in which programs look like abstract paintings | crasshopper | 7 | 0 |
| 2011-04-10 | Piet: programming with pixels | pankratiev | 32 | 3 |
| 2013-12-05 | Piet - write programs that look like abstract art | cimi_ | 1 | 0 |
| 2016-10-21 | Piet, the esoteric programming language | iheredia | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-01-27 | Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintingsFirst breakout | fny | 152 | 12 |
| 2019-12-30 | Piet, a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings | davedx | 122 | 19 |
| 2024-04-24 | Piet: Programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings (2002)Hall induction · Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | andsoitis | 447 | 71 |