JFunge

[xjharding@newbedford.k12.ma.us]

	Hey all. I'm kind of new around here (in the devel list), but I have
been using Debian for a while, and I want to contribute. I'm not much
of a C coder or anything, but I can whack Perl with the rest of them.
Anyway, getting to the point, I took a little and coded a Funge
interpreter in Perl. This is not useful at all, and is more of a
novelty. A funge (to the uninitiated) is a genre of programming
language. It has the following `features':

   - Stack Based Language
   - N Dimensional Programming
   - Character based directives

more information at: http://www.cats-eye.com/funge/

This language is not useful _at all_, but it *is* a lot of fun to code
in. Here's an example:

&:*.52*,@

That will prompt for a number, and then print the square and a newline.
As you can see, it has quite limited use.

I wrote this interpreter mainly out of boredom, and because none of the
other interpreters are under GPL. I was just wondering if there was any
interest for another goofy language (we have intercal for Debian
already I beleive) and if anyone would be interested in this. I am
planning on extending the Funge specification and making `enhancements'
to this language, which I feel is a very novel language indeed. If
anyone is interested in the source please contact me, but I am warning
you, my code is not the nicest or the fastest, but I am glad to take
suggestions/patches. Thanks you guys, for making such a great system
for me to use, and I anxiously await any input anyone has in this
matter.


Thanks,

         Josh