pythOwO

This article is about the original implementation.

pythOwO

Paradigm(s)	imperative
Designed by	virejdasani
Appeared in	2022
Type system	dynamic
Memory system	variable-based
Computational class	Turing complete
Reference implementation	pythOwO (virejdasani)
Major implementations	PythOwOn-cpp
Influenced by	Python
File extension(s)	.pyowo

PythOwO is a programming language with UwU syntax made by virejdasani on GitHub inspired by a Reddit post.

Examples

Hello World

This program prints "Hewwo Wowrld!" to the standard output.

pwint("Hewwo Wowrld!")

Ternary Operator

Ternary operators don't exist in pythOwO because they are regular IF statements

pwease tehe = 500
pwease var = IF tehe == 501 THWEN "tehe is 501" EWIF tehe == 500 THWEN "tehe is 500" EWSE "tehe is not 500 or 501"
pwint(var)

Outpuwut:

tehe is 500

Functions

Fwunctions (functions) in pythOwO are single-statement functions like in functional languages.

# 'IF' statements in pythOwO are one statement
FWUNCTION say(inpuwut) ->
    IF inpuwut == 1 THWEN
        pwint("UwU")
        WETURN 0
    EWIF inpuwut == 2
        pwint("OwO")
        WETURN 1
    EWSE
        pwint("TwT")
        WETURN 2
    END

say(1) # UwU
say(2) # OwO
say(2147483647) # TwT

Truth Machine

pwease inpuwut = inpwt() # receives stwing
IF inpuwut == "twue" THWEN
    # okie so i made a mistwake TwT pythOwO does have while loops lol
    WHILE twue
        pwint("UwU")
    END
EWIF inpuwut == "false" THWEN
    pwint("OwO")
EWSE
    pwint("UwU invawid inpuwut!")
END

Fibonacci Sequence

WARNING! UNTESTED

# functions in pythOwO are single-statement only, however 'if' statements
# can hold unlimited statements.
FWUNCTION fibonacci(n) ->
    IF n < 2 THWEN
        WETURN 1
    EWSE
        WETURN fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
    END

pwease fib_num = inpwt_int()

pwint(fibonacci(fib_num))

Criticism

PythOwO was criticized twice for not being Pythonic enough, aka the syntax is more reminiscent of BASIC with uppercase keywords and the missing off-side rule where indentation matters.

Using the truth machine program as an example, a more Pythonic implementation of pythOwO would look like

# why does python use capital true and false
pwease inpuwut = inpwt() # recieves stwing
if inpuwut == "twue" thwen
    while Twue
         pwint("UwU")
ewif inpuwut == "fawse" thwen
    pwint("OwO")
ewse
    pwint("UwU invawid inpuwut!")

Here is another example with the Fibonacci sequence.

# Ideally a fuwunction would be a cowontainew
fuwunction fibonacci(n)
    if n < 2 thwen
        wetuwurn 1
    ewse
        wetuwurn fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)

pwease fib_num = inpwt_int()

pwint(fibonacci(fib_num))

Also the source is just a copy of py-myopl-code by davidcallanan on GitHub but UwUfied and the official repository admits it.

See also

• Python

External resources

• Main implementation by virejdasani
• pythOwOn-compiler/PythOwOn-cpp a virtual machine for PythOwO in C++ by UFifty50
• py-myopl-code by davidcallanan