TOIYEN
Quick Overview
Are you tired of programming languages that coddle you with convenience? Do you find yourself overwhelmed by the oppressive abundance of instructions in C or Python? Who needs if statements, loops, or—heaven forbid—functions, when you can have the raw, unfiltered experience of TOIYEN? This One Instruction Set Computer (OISC) boldly asks: What if we just didn't?
TOIYEN is designed to strip away the unnecessary clutter that modern programming languages insist upon. No more syntax sugar, no more fancy "features." Just one glorious instruction, performing all computation with ruthless efficiency (and maybe just a little suffering). And, believe it or not, it’s still Turing complete.
Memory
Why waste time with dynamic typing or complex memory management? TOIYEN keeps things simple:
A 1000-cell tape (C[1] to C[1000]), because you can figure out how to use it efficiently.
A cells (A[1], A[2]) for handling input and output. A[2] resets after every instruction because memory persistence is for the weak.
B cells (B[1], B[2]) containing the constants 1 and -1, because even TOIYEN has some mercy.
Unicode output because numbers are boring.
Instruction Set
TOIYEN is refreshingly (or terrifyingly) simple:
TOIYEN a b f
- Subtracts b from a. That’s it. No +, no *, just subtraction. Enjoy.
- Takes the absolute value of the result, because negatives are complicated.
- If the result was negative before taking absolute value:
- If f is none, carry on like nothing happened.
- If f is end, the program halts—because TOIYEN believes in finality.
- Otherwise, execution jumps to file f, allowing you to spread the chaos across multiple files.
Execution of the Program
TOIYEN executes instructions sequentially, unless, of course, you make it jump somewhere else. Since there are no loops or conditionals (beyond our beloved absolute subtraction hack), you’ll need to get creative with external file execution. But hey, that’s what real programmers do, right?
Computational Class
Believe it or not, TOIYEN is Turing complete. Yes, despite its insistence on doing everything in the least convenient way possible, you can still compute anything—if you’re patient enough. It can simulate logic gates, loops, and even more traditional programming paradigms (with enough effort). Who needs direct addition or multiplication when you can build them from scratch?
Name and Its Meaning
TOIYEN stands for "The Only Instruction You'll Ever Need"—which is both a bold claim and an ominous warning. It embraces minimalism to an almost absurd degree, proving that all those extra instructions in other languages were just holding you back. If you like your programming languages lean, mean, and slightly sadistic, TOIYEN is perfect for you!
Examples
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