Agonize: The best programming language there is

Agonize is an esoteric programming language that ships with insane features such as I/O operations, and in a way simple arithmetic calculations such as addition and subtraction. Agonize is an interpreted language (may change sometime in the future) whose interpreter was built with Google's Dart. Agonize is completely open source with pride.

Interpreter Usage

The Agonize Interpreter's usage is as follows:

$ agonize [file]

This file argument can be omitted and the code will be read from stdin. Otherwise, agonize will try to open the path provided at file and read the code from there. Then this code will be executed by the interpreter.

Hello World

Creating your first "Hello, world!" program in Agonize can be as easy as 2,378 characters.

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This code can be optimized, but for that you'll need to learn the fundamentals and the syntax.

Fundamentals

Great! You've landed at the best place to start learning a new language: The Basics. Agonize is very similar to BrainF, but unlike the latter, Agonize has just one value that can be incremented and decremented. This value can be incremented with the + operator, decremented with the - operator, outputted with the > command, and added to from input with the <.

+ Operator

To increase the value (called the point) by one, use the + operator. The following code sets the point to one:

- Operator

To decrease the point by one, use the - operator. The following code sets the point to 1,114,111 (when the point goes below the inclusive range of 0..1,114,111 it "cycles" to the end):

> Command

To output the character with the Unicode codepoint of the point to stdout, use the > command. The following code writes a line feed (10):

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< Command

To read from stdin and add the value of the Unicode codepoint to the point, use the < command. The following code writes what the user types:

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Loops

The support for loops greatly enhances Agonize. The syntax for loops looks like so:

[OPERATIONS] *
             The number of asterisks here determines
             how many times the loop will run

The following code writes the letter "A" (65) to the console:

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Comments

Anything that is not in the character set +-[]*<> will be regarded as a comment, including whitepsaces such as line feeds and spaces.

Conclusion

With the help of everything that you have read so far, you should be able to improve the above "Hello, world!" program on your own. Happy agonizing!

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