Esme/esme.pl
A shameful Perl interpreter for Esme, written in 2019.
'It works by tapping out "ESME" into Morse code, then writing "Esme" in to the papers.' as helpfully specified by the language's creator on Talk:Esme. I can't remember if the looping / conditionals are finished or are even theoretically usable, it probably doesn't matter either way.
Usage
Copy the examples from the Esme article and name them HE.esme
, hello-world.esme
, and garbled-perl.pl
.
./esme hello-world.esme
runs the Hello World! example from the language article../esme HE.esme
runs the HE example, which demonstrates looping, because I don't know what else it is supposed to do../esme garbled-perl.pl
would run the Perl example from the language article../esme 1
runs an "N shell", which is taken to mean a limited Esme REPL. It can toggle between Perl and Esme using the%esmeraldalang%
token.
Excuses
- Absurdist Esolanging, why compromise with effort or quality at all?
- ... some idea of language 'design' arising from hitting a couple of (loosely) fixed points and having all the chaotic rules emerge from one of many possible random implementations
- ...
Interpreter in Perl
#!/usr/bin/perl # Shameful! use shame; use strict; use warnings; use Data::Dumper; use constant MORSE_E => "\."; use constant MORSE_S => "\.\.\."; use constant MORSE_M => "__"; use constant MORSE_EXCLAIM => "_\._\.__"; $SIG{'INT'} = 'INT_handler'; # Initialize "The Papers" my %papers = (-E => '', -S => '', -M => ''); my $esmeraldalang = 1; print "." . "\n"; if ( $ARGV[0] =~ /^[0-9]+$/) { my $n = $ARGV[0]; my $prompt = "\n$n> "; print "Entering N shell $n"; print "... $prompt"; while (<STDIN>) { $esmeraldalang = 1 - $esmeraldalang if /%esmeraldalang%/; $esmeraldalang ? process() : eval; print $prompt } } else { my $filename = $ARGV[0]; print "... Loading $filename:\n"; open(my $fh, '<:encoding(UTF-8)', $filename) or die "Could not open file '$filename' $!"; $/ = ""; while (<$fh>) { s/\|.*//m; $esmeraldalang = 1 - $esmeraldalang if /%esmeraldalang%/; $esmeraldalang ? process() : eval; } } end(); sub group_split { # split a block into groups of dots or dashes, possibly spanning multiple lines # (<char>, (<length>, <# lines>)) # ('.', (1, 1)), ('_', (2, 1)) my @groups; my $lastc = ''; my $lastw = 0; my $i = -1; while(m/(([\._ ])\2*($)?)/mg) { #print " Checking: $1 "; my $c = substr($1, 0, 1); my $l = length $1; if ($lastc eq $c and $l == $lastw) { $groups[$i][2]++; } else { ($lastc, $lastw) = ($c, $l); $groups[++$i] = [$c, $l, 1]; } } return @groups; } sub morse { # Taps out ESME into Morse code # so it can be written to the "papers". s/ *[Ee]/${\MORSE_E}/g; s/ *[Ss]/${\MORSE_S}/g; s/[Mm]/${\MORSE_M}/g; s/[Éé]/${\MORSE_E}/g; s/[!!]/${\MORSE_EXCLAIM}/g; return $_; } sub process { s/^\s+|\s+$//g; my $mode = uc substr($_, 0, 1); my $jmp = 0; morse; my $block_size = tr/\._//; my $exclamation = () = $_ =~ /${\MORSE_EXCLAIM}/g; () = $_ =~ /((${\MORSE_EXCLAIM})+)/g; $block_size -= $exclamation * length(MORSE_EXCLAIM); if ($exclamation) { my $exclamation_last = () = $1 =~ /${\MORSE_EXCLAIM}/g; $_ =~ /((${\MORSE_EXCLAIM})+)/; my $exclamation_first = () = $1 =~ /${\MORSE_EXCLAIM}/g; $block_size -= int($block_size / $exclamation_last * $exclamation_first + 0.5); } #print "\nRAW BLOCK: [$_]\n"; #print "\nMODE: $mode\n"; #print "\nLENGTH: $block_size\n"; #print "\nMORSE: [$_]\n"; my @groups = group_split; if (0 and $mode eq 'E') { print "S GROUPS: " . Dumper @groups; } my $i = -1; while ($i++ < $#groups) { #print " I: $i \n"; my ($s, $x, $y) = ($groups[$i][0], $groups[$i][1], $groups[$i][2]); if ($jmp ne 0) { $mode = 'E'; if ($jmp < 0) { #print " mode: $mode START AT $i \n"; my $j = 0; while ($jmp <= 0) { $jmp += $groups[$i-$j][1] * $groups[$i-$j++][2]; } $i -= $j; if ($i < 0) { $i = ~$i; } #print " JUMP BACK TO $i \n"; $jmp =0; } else { $jmp -= $x * $y; next; } } if ($mode eq 'E' and $s eq '.') { my $r = my $m = ($i == 0 or $i == scalar @groups - 1) ? -1 : 1; my $b = ($x == $y or $i-1 > 0 and ($x == $groups[$i-1][2]) and ($x * $y == $groups[$i-1][1] + $groups[$i-1][2])); # square! $m = 0.5 if $y > $x and not $b; ($b, $r) = ((1 - $y) * $x, $y) if ($y < $x and $m == 1); $b = $y = $y**2 if ($i * $m < 0 and $block_size == ($x**2)/2+$x*$y); # last block $papers{$mode} .= ("Esme " x (int($block_size + $m * ($x * $y + $b)) % 256) . "\n") x abs $r; } if ($mode eq 'E' and $s eq '_') { if (~($x * $y) & 1) { $papers{$mode} .= ('Esme ' x 32 . "\n"); } else { # Conditional calc jump... #print " [Begin JMP CMD] \n"; $mode = 'S'; } } if ($mode eq 'S') { if ($s eq '_' and (~$x & 1)) { $mode = 'E'; if ($papers{'S'}) { #print $papers{'S'}; $jmp = () = $papers{'S'} =~ /Esme/mg; my $mod = () = $papers{'S'} =~ /!$/mg; $jmp *= $papers{'S'} =~ /^!\n/ ? -1 : 1; #print "JMP: $jmp \n"; $papers{'S'} = '!Esme '; #print " [JMP COND MET!] "; } else { # print " [JMP COND _NOT_ MET!] "; } } else { my $log = log($x ** $y) / log 3; (my $r, $y, my $n) = int($log) == $log ? (($log - 1) * 3 + ($y > $x), 1, "!") : ($x / 3, $y, $x & 1 ? "" : "!"); $papers{$mode} .= ($n . "Esme " x (abs($r) * (($s eq '.') ? 1 : 2)) . ($x & 1 ? "\n" : "")) x $y; } } if ($mode eq 'M') { $papers{$mode} .= "Esme "; } if ($mode eq 'E') { display_paper($mode); } } # display the M paper display_paper('M') if $mode eq 'M'; } sub display_paper { my $mode = $_[0]; unless ($mode eq 'S') { foreach (split(/^/, $papers{$mode})) { if ($mode eq 'E' and $papers{'S'}) { $papers{'S'} =~ /(.*)(^[^\n]*)$/sm; $papers{'S'} = $1; if (substr($2, 0, 1) eq "!") { $_ .= $2; } else { s/$2//; } } my $esme = () = /Esme/g; print chr $esme; } $papers{$mode} = ''; } } sub pop_S_paper { if ($papers{'S'}) { $papers{'S'} =~ /(.*)(^[^\n]*)$/sm; $papers{'S'} = $1; return $2; } return; } sub INT_handler { end(); } sub end { print "\n__\n.\n"; exit(0); }
Code samples
A 'better' HE Output example
This modified version of the original example given in the article gives cleaner 'HE' Output in the above interpreter:
esme esme esme!!!!!!!!!!!!!ESME!ESME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!esme esme esme!!!!!!!!!!!!!ESME!ESME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ESME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ESMESMESMESMESMESM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Data encoder
There are many ways to encode data in Esme, this code provides a deterministic way to generate Esme sourcecode to reproduce any fixed output. NB: this example is Esme sourcecode, not Perl.
| Arbitrary data encoder: esmencode.esme | This script takes a filename as an argument and outputs Esme code to recreate that data. | Usage: | ./esme esmencode.esme somedata.data M!!E %esmeraldalang% shift; while (<>) { while (/(.)/gs) { print((("ME " x int(ord($1) / 3 + 0.5)) . (!(ord($1) % 3) ? "M" : (!((ord($1)-1)%3) ? " M" : ""))) =~ s/^M$/EE/r =~ s/ M$/M/r =~ s/ $//r . "\n\n");}}
Example usage: Generate code to produce File:EsmeLangLogo.png
$ ./esme esmencode.esme EsmeLangLogo.png > mycode.esme $ ./esme mycode.esme | tail -n+3 | head -c-6 > new-png.png
mycode.esme will be 1.4K lines of hideous Esme, and new-png.png will be a valid PNG. There will be other ways to encode data. This implementation is simple, but not very efficient.