Bag
From Esolang
Bag by Ørjan Johansen is derived from John Conway's Fractran game/language, adding syntax and side effects to make it a "practical" programming language (although still an esoteric one), while being backwards compatible with it, and perhaps allowing a semi-efficient implementation.
The power, indeed Turing completeness of Fractran comes from viewing a natural number as the product of a bag (multiset) of prime factors, where the order of primes is immaterial but the number of each is important. The name of Bag is derived from this.
[edit] Author's note
Many details of the language are still under construction. There might even be a module system...
[edit] See also
[edit] External resources
- Author's Bag page, including original message to the esoteric language mailing list.
