thiagopnts/groot

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thiagopnts/groot.json

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The Groot Programming Language

Groot is an esoteric programming language, which uses the language of an extraterrestrial plant from Planet X called Groot as its syntax.

Commands

There are eight commands like Brainfuck:

phrase	meaning
i am groot	increment the byte at the data pointer.
I am Groot	decrement the byte at the data pointer.
I AM GROOOT	output the byte at the data pointer.
I AM GROOT	increment the data pointer.
I am groot	decrement the data pointer.
I am grooot	accept one byte of input.
I'm Groot	if the byte at the data pointer is zero, then instead of moving the instruction pointer forward to the next command, jump it forward to the command after the matching We are Groot command.
We are Groot	if the byte at the data pointer is nonzero, then instead of moving the instruction pointer forward to the next command, jump it back to the command after the matching I'm Groot command.

Building

To build, run:

$ cargo build

Running

To run:

$ cargo run helloworld.groot

The Rust version used to build this: rustc 1.0.0-nightly (dfc5c0f1e 2015-02-18) (built 2015-02-19)

It will probably work with any nightly build.