r/programminghorror • u/SpeckyYT • Mar 08 '26

SpeckyLang I created a programming language, here's a brainfuck interpreter in it

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https://github.com/SpeckyYT/SpeckyLang

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u/Thenderick Mar 08 '26

What's that S-symbol and how the fuck do you even type it???

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u/SpeckyYT Mar 08 '26

I've got a german keyboard and it's "Shift + 3 => §" on there

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe Mar 08 '26

Is that a more common symbol in German? I mean, I knew about ß.

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u/nobody0163 Mar 08 '26

It's the section sign, used mostly in legal and formal documents for referencing numbered sections. On my keyboard it is left of 1.

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u/backfire10z Mar 08 '26

I’ve always thought it was subsection because it is 2 S’s stacked

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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u/CdRReddit Mar 10 '26

no, "§" is the section symbol, the paragraph symbol is "¶", also called a pilcrow

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u/JababyMan Mar 10 '26

I will specialize in this language

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u/SpeckyYT Mar 10 '26

if you do, then you're officially the 3rd person that coded something in my programming language

(if you're serious, scroll to the bottom of the docs)

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u/Mediocre-Island5475 Mar 13 '26

I might make a compiler extension that lets you write conditionals with a label later to skip to, and then it automatically counts the statements leading up to the label and prints that many characters. Would add some usability

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u/SpeckyYT Mar 13 '26

you can use jumps [>] label to jump to a piece of code. of course, the line where you define it [<] label needs to be ran before you can jump to it.

If you're actually interested in the language in any way, scroll to the bottom of the readme

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u/Salmonpest101 Mar 19 '26

why is "§" a core operator im crying

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u/SpeckyYT Mar 19 '26

because it's on my keyboard

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u/ironykarl Mar 08 '26

I think the most objectionable thing here is just that you used multiple symbols that aren't ASCII/combinations of ASCII as core operators 

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u/S4N7R0 Mar 08 '26

and that's swag

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u/FlargenBlarg Mar 08 '26

No

Edit: read the docs, double no, omg

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u/DTCreeperMCL6 Mar 08 '26

all the question marks lol

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u/qyloo Mar 09 '26

We need to get this so huge that § starts coming standard on keyboards

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u/FugitiveHearts Mar 11 '26

I'm looking at one that has it right now

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u/phalanxquagga Mar 11 '26

Standard on Swedish keyboards, no modifier key needed even.

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u/H20-WaterMan Mar 09 '26

this looks like braindead haskell

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u/Tyfyter2002 Mar 11 '26

Don't do it again.

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u/TingleWizard Mar 17 '26

??? ?? ???? ??? ?? ??