The Wierd Language

A true "graphical" language by ChrisPressey, the author of BefungeLanguage, in an attempt to reduce the number of commands required in a 2-D language yet still be TuringComplete. The instruction pointer moves in directions that are multiples of 45 degrees, along lines of non-space characters. The seven instructions are encoded in the angles between the lines of characters.

Other sample programs and the language description are at http://catseye.tc/projects/wierd/

A program to print "Hello, world" in this language is visible at http://catseye.tc/projects/wierd/eg/hello.w

Is "weird" intentionally misspelled in the language name?

• It's supposed to be a cross between the words "weird" and "wired," according to the spec. See: http://catseye.tc/projects/wierd/doc/wierdspec.txt

This example program reads two digits from the console, adds them, and prints the result:

  0   ****
   ***  *
        *
    ***  *
   *   * *
  ***  *  **
     *  *   *
      *  *****
       *
        ****
          *
         *
        *
       *

This one, "cat", pumps input to output until EOF is read:

 \                        \
  \                      / \
   \                    /|  \
    \       -------/   | |   \
     \     /      /    | |    \
    / \   /      |     |  \    \
   /   --/       |     |  |     \
  /          /---+-----+--+----  \
 /          |    |     |  |   |   \
  \         /    |     |  |   |    *
   \       |     |     \   \   \
    \      \   /-+----  \  |   |
     \      | |  |    \  \ |  /
      \    /- |  \  ---\  x  /---
       \  |   |   -/     / \     \
        \ /   |         /   ------\
         \    |        /
              |       /
              |      /
              |     /
              |    /
              |   /
              |  /
              | /
              |/
              /

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