README.npiet: Jun 2004
(schoenfr@web.de) Nov 2009
(gleitz@mit.edu) Oct 2013
- npiet is an interperter for the piet programming language and
- npietedit is a very simple editor for small piet programs.
- npietedit-foogol is a ``foogol to piet'' compiler.
about the piet programming language please look at:
http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html
and you find more about npiet at:
http://bertnase.de/npiet
and a copy of the foogol (and cfoogol) postings, about a ``ALGOL-like
language'' definition is avail here:
http://bertnase.de/html/foogol.html
to compile and install npiet and the additional programs and files run
brew install libgd # mac os
./configure
make
make install
this installs the binaries npiet, npietedit and npiet-foogol,
together with the manpages npiet.1, npietedit.1 and npiet-foogol.1 .
if compiled with gd-lib and png-lib support (if avail), graphical
trace output can be created by npiet - great fun ;-)
npietedit is a Tk/Tcl program, so you need Tk/Tcl installed to run it.
npiet-foogil needs libgd to compile and run.
a quick npiet-foogol and npiet test would be:
echo 'begin prints ("Yo\n") end' | ./npiet-foogol -
./npiet npiet-foogol.png
or additionally to create a trace picture named npiet-trace.png:
./npiet -tpic npiet-foogol.png
Have fun!
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Fri Aug 5 23:14:42 CEST 2011