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3L
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3L is an esolang by User:ChuckEsoteric08 which is a simplification of 2DChanger and with the name taken from 2L but refers to actual number of instructions in both itself and 2L
Specification
The program is on a two-dimensional grid with instruction pointer in top right corner and moving right. It uses binary tape infinite in both directions (unlike 2DChanger which used right-infinite). It has three commands:
}- flip current cell and move tape pointer right+- move tape pointer left. If current cell is 1, turn clockwise, else turn counter-clockwise- Everything else is a NOP but it is very important and thus counted as a seperate instruction
When running program backwards each command can be reversed, proving that it is reversible:
}- move tape pointer left and flip current cell+- if current cell is 1 turn counter-clockwise, else turn clockwise. Regardless of the value move tape pointer right- NOP is it's own reverse
Computational class
It is unknown if the language is Turing-complete but it is likely to be so.