MoonPeanut, an Esoteric Functional Programming Language

Update:

• 0.0011: Source code included.
• 0.0010: Better debugging messages when errors occur, as well as some changes to the way strings are handled.
• 0.0001: Initial release.

Moonpeanut is an esoteric functional programming language meant for writing short obfuscated lines and writing functional style one-liners, it's not terribly hard to read either. As an example:

:\a|a!P:,P"Hello World"P

prints out forever in tail recursion the words Hello World. As well, the notation of the programming language was meant to seem a bit unconventional.

This interpreter was written in java, so it should run on a variety of places pretty easily. Don't forget you'll need Java runtimes installed to run this. The zip file contains a mpn.bat to run it easily on PCs and execute at the command prompt:

mpn fac.mpn

Here you can download alpha versions of a MoonPeanut language interpreter to play around with.

• Download MoonPeanut 0.0011 (comes with source)
• MoonPeanut reference
• License
• Source Examples:
  • Factorials in MoonPeanut
  • Passing functions to other functions in MoonPeanut
  • Dynamically reassigned functions in MoonPeanut

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