HUNTER is a language I designed for the Esoteric Awards ("Essies") Its abstract starts out like this:
It is perceived that one of the biggest problems in maintaining interest in programming is the above linear growth of boredom compared to the usefulness of the program, resulting in an acute loss of enthusiasm on the part of the programmers and ultimately the abandonment of the software...
Submitted to Competitions
- Esoteric Awards (no prize)
Sample Program
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# # #
# ###### M #
# M# #
#+###### #
# !# #
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*12+>3
*21+>3
Programming Paradigms
Documentation
Implementations
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hunter.pl, an interpreter in Perl
To run this implementation, you need:
- an implementation of Perl (we suggest perl 5.8.8)
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Console::Virtual (Perl module), in Perl
To run this implementation, you need:
- an implementation of Perl (we suggest perl 5.8.8)
Download
Development
Github: catseye/HUNTER
Bitbucket: catseye/hunter
Issue tracker: on github