Talk:Xtrod
Dear Ractangle:
I apologize for the inconvenience, but presume to have recognized a frailty in the contemporaneous Xtrod language rendition.
The Xtrod language in its current form—as opposed to the erstwhile one—does not seem to furnish veridical operative capacities, least being an equipollent alternative to brainfuck. This curtailment originates in the conflation of the conditional cell pointer translation and cell value modification actions, concretely the instruction twain ( and ).
As both move the cell pointer in the case of a zero-valued cell, while incrementing or decrementing in any other circumstance, and given that an Xtrod tape at its inchoation commences with all cells set to zero, an arithmetic raising or lowering of the state can never transpire, except for a prevenient input induction; forecause any attempt to add or subtract from such an initially zero-valued cell will instead move the cell pointer.
My current interpreter implementation in Common Lisp, hopefully, complies with the most recent language standard; yet, I cannot conceive many use cases besides those reliant on the input/output facilities.
I apologize if erring on the subject and thank you for your time.
Yours faithfully,
Kaveh Yousefi (talk) 20:21, 13 August 2025 (UTC)
- you could've just called me by my current internet alias "Gaham" but whatever,
- "I cannot conceive many use cases besides those reliant on the input/output facilities", that's the reason why minifying a language could have a chance of being unusableUser:Gaham (Discord:mrglebsun)