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7-8
An esoteric programming language inspired by the 7-8 meme. Presumably, the meme appeared from VK due to posts like "the last digit of your like will show you in the picture", and someone took and pulled 7-8 out of context and it turned out to be an incomprehensible, but funny joke.
Syntaxis
The language is based on brainfuck, offering the same commands, however encoded in the number of 7-8 tokens sharing a line. As a corollary, each two commands are separated by a linebreak.
| Brainfuck | 7-8 | Number of 7-8s
|
|---|---|---|
+ |
7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 |
4 |
- |
7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 |
5 |
> |
7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 |
8 |
< |
7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 |
6 |
. |
7-8 7-8 7-8 |
3 |
, |
7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 |
7 |
[ |
7-8 7-8 |
2 |
] |
7-8 |
1 |
Examples
Hello World!
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Cat program
An infinitely repeating cat program is implemented by this program:
7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8 7-8
Interpreter
- Common Lisp implementation of the 7-8 programming language.