Spicescript is a stack-based esoteric programming language designed to emulate the lyrical style of the artist "Ice Spice." Just like Ice Spice is revolutionizing the rap game, this project is intended to revolutionize the world of esoteric programming languages. The language is inspired by RPN and Forth, meaning that most operations occur as postfix. Functionally, all of the operations occur on a stack.
The goal of SpiceScript is not to write functional code, but rather to write code that closely resembles Ice Spice lyrics. "IceSpythonic", if you will.
But it is possible to write functional code, as it is nearly Turing-Complete. Here's an example of functional and running code in IceScript:
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
dat boys_a_liar like
she in_ha_mood like
oh, she in_ha_mood ( damn )
lose already chose like damn ( grah )
boy [] like
boy anteater he eat_it_for_lunch ( grah )
- Dynamic typing
- Interpreted language
- Open source
- Fun to read
- Whitespace-agnostic
- Dynamic memory allocation
- Ice Spice syntax
To use this language, extract the contents from the file after using this command in your terminal.
git clone https://github.com/luigimagdamit/spicescript.git
Modify the contents of test.mood using the syntax provided below. After making said adjustments, go ahead and run Parser.py
The syntax of Spicescript is designed with phrases commonly seen in Ice Spice's songs.
- Note: Parentheses are used to group expressions together, but they don't actually do anything. Just use it for style.
Files are in the extension .mood and must have you_thought_i_was_feelin_u? in the first line, other wise the file will not run.
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
hello! ( grah )
Use the keyword like to declare a variable. Here is an example. Variables must either be integer numbers or strings without white space, because Ice Spice concise.
foo 10 like
bar orange like
Use the keyword hold_on to combine strings:
greeting
hello world! hold_on
like
Use the keyword grah to print.
greeting
hello world? hold_on
like
greeting ( grah )
Booleans take the form of either in_ha_mood for True or boys_a_liar for False
john boys_a_liar like # variable with a false value
jose in_ha_mood like # variable with a true value
The damn keyword is used to indicate frustration or disappointment. It is also used as a boolean comparison operator similar to ==.
Use the word damn to compare to boolean variables, and the result will be placed on the stack.
she in_ha_mood like
# sets she = in_ha_mood
god in_ha_mood like
# sets god = in_ha_mood
bad boys_a_liar like
# sets bad = boys_a_liar
she in_ha_mood ( damn )
# compares "she" and in_ha_mood and returns in_ha_mood
the boys_a_liar god damn like ( grah )
# sets a variable named "the" to the result of comparing "boys_a_liar" to god and prints the resulting variable
Conditionals will start with a boolean followed by the keyword then with the statement following, and ending with duhduhduh
# does not execute
boys_a_liar then
hello! ( grah )
duhduhduh
# executes and prints hello world
in_ha_mood then
hello world hold_on ( grah )
duhduhduh
You can declare an array in the following fashion:
top_songs [] like
# must always start off this way, initalizing
top_songs song1 eat_it_for_lunch
# eat_it_for_lunch appends to list
top_songs 0 grab grah
# prints the item at index
top_songs 0 munch
# munch will remove a variable at the index
This language has functionality with simple finite loops in the form of hit_wonder with the range preceding, the expression following and duhduhduh denoting the end of the repeating expression.
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
0 10 hit_wonder
yuh! ( grah )
duhduhduh
baddies [] like
0 10 hit_wonder
baddies me eat_it_for_lunch
duhduhduh
baddies ( grah )
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
count 0 like
0 10 hit_wonder
count ( count 1 + ) like
count ( grah )
duhduhduh
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
count 0 like
baddies [] like
0 10 hit_wonder
count ( count 1 + ) like
i count 1 - like
i grah
baddies i eat_it_for_lunch
duhduhduh
baddies ( grah )
count 0 like
\n ( grah )
0 10 hit_wonder
baddies 0 munch
duhduhduh
baddies grah
Here is an example program in the Ice Spice programming language. Also note that the program file requires the header you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?or else it will not run.
Without annotation:
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
soni hello world hold_on
like
soni in_ha_mood like
( soni that boys_a_liar ) damn
then anthony in_ha_mood like a duhduhduh
( soni grah )
With annotation:
you_thought_i_was_feelin_u?
### mandatory header
soni hello world hold_on
### concat hello, world
like
### store it in `soni` variable
soni in_ha_mood like
### change `soni` value to in_ha_mood
( soni that boys_a_liar ) damn
### compare in_ha_mood to boys_a_liar
### damn is a boolean == operator
then anthony in_ha_mood like a duhduhduh
### then takes the boolean evaluation
### and conditionally runs the code until duhduhduh
( soni grah )
### print the value of `soni`
stan ice spice