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Zhang Lang
Zhang Lang is an esoteric programming language created by yours truly. Behind the scenes, it is translated into brainfuck aka the best programming language created by mankind. Code is written as a sequence of "Zhang"s and "Lu"s. The code then gets split into sections of 3. Each combination gets mapped to a brainfuck operation.
- Lu Lu Lu: +
- Lu Lu Zhang: -
- Lu Zhang Lu: <
- Lu Zhang Zhang: >
- Zhang Lu Lu: [
- Zhang Lu Zhang: ]
- Zhang Zhang Lu: .
- Zhang Zhang Zhang: ,
BTS
No, not the band. behind the scenes, it converts Zhangs to 1 and Langs to 0. Which are bits. And turns out, 3 bits exactly cover every brainfuck operation(-, +, <, etc) because there are 8 bf operation and 2³ = 8. The code gets split into sections of 3. So, "Zhang Lu Lu Lu Zhang Zhang" gets split into "Zhang Lu Lu" and "Lu Zhang Zhang" which gets converted into "100" and "011", which is "[>".