Pride

PRIDE

Paradigm(s)	imperative, stack-based
Designed by	User:Las-r
Appeared in	2026
Computational class	Unknown
Major implementations	GitHub
File extension(s)	.rid

PRIDE is a stack-based esolang that works on bits / booleans made by Nayif Ehan in 2026. It is very loosely based off Forth and Brainfuck, though most similarities are coincidental.

More info can be found on PRIDE's GitHub repo.

Syntax

PRIDE operates entirely on a stack that holds boolean values (`True` or `False`). The stack is initialized with a single `False` value. Data processing (such as working with text or integers) is achieved by treating groups of 8 boolean bits as standard bytes.

The language contains 15 commands. Any character not defined in the table below is treated as a comment and ignored by the interpreter.

Stack Manipulation

Command	Name	Description
*	Duplicate	Duplicates the top value of the stack and pushes it.
@	Rotate 2	Moves the 2nd item from the top to the very top of the stack.
#	Rotate 4	Moves the 4th item from the top to the very top of the stack.
$	Rotate 8	Moves the 8th item from the top to the very top of the stack.
-	Pop / Delete	Removes the top value from the stack. If the stack becomes entirely empty, it automatically resets to a single False.

Logical Operators

Command	Name	Description
!	NOT	Pops the top value, inverts it (True -> False, or vice versa), and pushes the result.
&	AND	Pops the top two values, performs a logical AND, and pushes the result.
|	OR	Pops the top two values, performs a logical OR, and pushes the result.
^	XOR	Pops the top two values, performs a logical XOR (Exclusive OR), and pushes the result.

Control Flow

PRIDE utilizes a conditional execution loop based on the truthiness of the top stack value.

Command	Name	Description
[	Conditional Skip Forward	Checks the top value of the stack. If it is True, the execution pointer skips forward past the matching ].
]	Conditional Jump Backward	Checks the top value of the stack. If it is False, the execution pointer jumps backward to the matching [.

Input / Output (I/O)

Command	Name	Description
,	Output Bit	Prints the top stack value as an integer (1 for True, 0 for False) without a newline.
.	Output Character	Reads the top 8 values of the stack, reverses them into standard binary order, converts the resulting byte to an ASCII character, and prints it. Note: This does not pop the values.
/	Output Newline	Prints a blank newline to the console.
?	Input String	Reads a string from standard input. Every character is converted to its 8-bit binary representation (left-to-right) and pushed onto the stack as booleans.

Examples

More examples can be found on GitHub.

Hello World

***!*!**!*!.
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!*!*!*!**!*.
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**!**!*!*..
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!****!*!**!.
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*****!*!*.
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!***!*!*!*!*!.
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!****!*!**!.
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*!*!**!***!.
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**!**!*!*.
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**!*!**!**!.