Alex

Alex is an esoteric programming language with stack-based memory like in brainfuck, but it has strange syntax, and all command must end with: " - Alex.". This language was invented by Ronald Houkens.

Examples

Hello, World!

You: This is a comment.
You: Hello World in Alex

Say H - Alex.
Say e - Alex.
Say l - Alex.
Say l - Alex.
Say o - Alex.
Say , - Alex.
Say Space - Alex.
Say W - Alex.
Say o - Alex.
Say r - Alex.
Say l - Alex.
Say d - Alex.
Say ! - Alex.
Say LineFeed - Alex.

Counts from 5 to 0

Set A1 5 - Alex.

Label A - Alex.
Put A1 - Alex.
Decrement A1 - Alex.
Say LineFeed - Alex.
IfNotZero A1 A - Alex.

Truth-machine

You: Truth-machine by SLNETAIGA

Set A1 0 - Alex.
Set A2 1 - Alex.

Get A3 - Alex.
IfEquals A3 A1 z - Alex.
IfEquals A3 A2 o - Alex.
End - Alex.

Label o - Alex.
Say 1 - Alex.
GoTo o - Alex.

Label z - Alex.
Say 0 - Alex.
End - Alex.

Brainfuck translation

Brainfuck	Alex
+	Increment A<cell_id> - Alex.
-	Decrement A<cell_id> - Alex.
>	(No Alex equivalent. Just specify cell id)
<	(No Alex equivalent. Just specify cell id)
.	Puts A<cell_id> - Alex.
,	Gets A<cell_id> - Alex.
[	label A - Alex.
]	IfNotZero A<cell_id> A - Alex.

External resources

• https://github.com/SLNETAIGA/AlexEsoLang (Implement on PHP)