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a language where the programs are works of modern art (updated for OSX)

README.npiet:					Jun 2004
  ([email protected])					Nov 2009
  ([email protected])                  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!

-- Fri Aug 5 23:14:42 CEST 2011