HyperGolf
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HyperGolf is an idea for an esoteric programming language by User:DoggyDogWhirl.
HyperGolf would act like a golfing language, except that it would completely lack basic functions like addition in favor of needlessly complicated functions like hyperoperations. This would make it very bad at actually code golfing, though of course, that's what would make code golfing in it interesting.
Commands
A golfing language takes a lot of commands to be effective, so even a long list of ideas here might not be enough. This list is open to additions.
- Hyperoperations, as previously mentioned
- Quaternions
- The quadratic formula
- The quartic formula?
- Reversible logic gates like the Toffoli and Fredkin gates
- Quantum logic gates may work on matrices (lists of lists, or possibly their own type)
- Strings encoded in base 65536
- Continued fractions
- Number literals 0-9 have different values
| Digit | Actual value |
|---|---|
| 0 | 0 |
| 1 | i |
| 2 | √2 |
| 3 | 1000 (10³) |
| 4 | 256 |
| 5 | |
| 6 | τ (2π, 6.28..) |
| 7 | |
| 8 | Infinity |
| 9 | 362880 (9!) or 2520 |
Some ideas that may be less useless but still odd:
- UNTILs and UNLESSs rather than WHILEs and IFs
- Indices of sorted list
- List of all factors of a number
- Fixed point operation
- Convert integer to word form (17 -> "seventeen")