Stackish

Stackish

Paradigm(s)	imperative
Designed by	ender_scythe
Appeared in	2016
Memory system	stack-based
Computational class	Turing complete
Major implementations	Original
Influenced by	Befunge (loosely)
File extension(s)	.stk

Stackish was a venture into stack-based programming by ender_scythe in November, 2016.

Language overview

In Stackish nearly every command alters the stack somehow.

Stackish has 28 commands.

Note: character numbers start at 0.

Command	Description
0-9	Pushes this number to stack.
"number/string"	Pushes this number/these characters's values to stack.
+	Pop last two numbers, add and push result to stack.
-	Pop last two numbers, subtract second to last from last and push result to stack.
i=/!/>/<...'	Pop last two numbers, if second to last (equal/not equal/greater/less) last do...
j	Pop last number and jump to that character number.
l<character number>'	Jump to the character number <character number>. If the command is l' jump to 0th character.
k	Pop last number, if the stack is empty after pop, jump to the character number that was popped.
r	Generate random number and push that to the stack.
q	Pop last number from the "popped" stack and push to "main" stack (referred to as the stack).
p	Pop last number from the stack.
.	Pop last number and output (as integer).
,	Pop last number and output (as ASCII).
:	Get input and push to stack (if ASCII, push first character's value).
;	Get input and push to stack (as if it were "number/string").
z	Pause until keypress.
c	Clear the screen.
\	Swap last number of the stack with the first.
/	Swap last two numbers of the stack.
d	Duplicate the last number of the stack and push to stack.

Canonical stuff

If you are making a Stackish interpreter/compiler, keep these things in mind.

• When popping, push the pop into the opposite stack. So if I'm popping from the "main" stack I would push to the "popped" stack, but if I was popping from the "popped" stack, I would push to the "main" stack. This ensures that the q command works properly.
• If possible; have r generate a number from 0 to 2,147,483,647.

Examples

This prints Hello, World! to the screen.

"!dlroW ,olleH",l15'

This prints a random number after every pause.

r.zcl'

This prints the next Fibonacci number after ever pause (1,2,3,5,8,13...)

01d\+.qzcl2'

External resources

• Original Interpreter (Dead link)