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OneVar
OneVar is an esolang invented by User:None1. As its name states, it uses only one variable (signed integer initially 0), whose name is _, but you can do a lot of things to it.
Commands
There are two types of commands: variable assignment and conditional jumping. They're separated by line feeds.
Variable assignments are like this:
_=expression
Self-explanatory.
Conditional jumps are like this:
expression$offset
If expression is nonzero, add line number by offset instead of moving on to the next line.
Output (Optional):
./:
Prints _ as ASCII character/integer.
Input (Optional):
,/;
Reads _ as ASCII character/integer.
Operators
OneVar has many operators: +,-,*,/(Floor division),%,**,&,|,^,~,(),<<,>>,>,<,==,!=,>=,<=. Operator precedences are the same as that of Python. You can use integer literals (decimal only) as well.
Examples
Infinite loop
~_$0;
Computational class
If OneVar supported floats, it would be Turing complete for we can fit two accumulators in one variable and implement a Minsky machine. However, with integers, its computational class is unknown, but at least a PDA.