mewl
Mewl Language
An esoteric language which lets you program in cats’ language.
Introduction
🤔 What,Why?
Well, 2 years ago in 2020, I created a esoteric programming language called Mewmew. It was just a fun and experimental language I made while tinkering with ANTLR, cause I was (am still) fascinated about programming languages, interpreter/compilers; how they work; how they basically become the medium of interaction between humans and computers and/or machines. But with ANTLR, I didn’t actually learn much about compiler/interpreter construction. It just worked! No fun!
So, In the October of 2021, I started re-writing the whole thing from scratch with Rust. I was able to build a lexer; a basic parser; But then I realized, syntax of ‘mewmew’ is ugly. I hurts my eyes to look at a ‘mewmew’ source code.
Again in, March 2022, I started experimenting with mewmew lanugage but with lisp style syntax, ‘cause lisp is awesome. So, here is the result, Mewl , mewmew reborn with the syntax similar to lisp. Most important thing, I am having fun while developing mewl, and the syntax doesn’t hurt my eyes that much.
Basics
Numbers
There is no concept of traditional numbers in mewl instead we use mews.
For example you want to write 5 you could do something like this
mewmewmewmewmew
or maybe 2
mewmew
So basically 1 mew is equivalent to 1; 2 mews is equivalent to 2 and so on.
- Note: We don’t have zero, to get zero we use subtraction
[- mew mew](it’s like1-1= 0) [Mathematical operations will be discussed later]
But what about large numbers like 100 , 2022 , 500 or maybe -10 , -3.1, for that we have some shortcuts, like these :
To write large numbers we can use mathematics, like [* mewmew mewmewmewmewmew] is equal to 10, or multiplying that expression with itself we can get 100. But that’s cumbersome and complicated! Instead we have a simpler (relatively) syntax shortcut.
Lets write 100:
[mew [- mew mew] [- mew mew]]
How about 2022:
[mewmew [- mew mew] mewmew mewmew]