xenoglossia

Introduction

A programming language specifically designed such that ASTs generated by markov chain are likely to produce programs with meaningful effect

— mcc (@mcclure111) `July 11, 2015 <https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/619713910552133632>`__

Xenoglossia is a simple string manipulation language, akin to sed. It was created with the goal of producing surprising, fun-to-read programs which can be generated in novel manners by a computer.

An introduction to the language and its syntax can be found in the design document <https://github.com/mistydemeo/xenoglossia/blob/master/doc/design.md>, and the documentation of the builtin functions can currently be found in the docstrings of the builtins module <https://github.com/mistydemeo/xenoglossia/blob/master/xenoglossia/builtins.py>.

Usage

Xenoglossia will install an executable named xg. To run a program, call xg --input STRING "xenoglossia program"; for example:

.. code:: sh

xg --input "This is the input string" "sub 'input' 'output'"

You can also pipe input into stdin:

.. code:: sh

echo "This is the input string" | xg "sub 'input' 'output'"

Sample programs

Replace two words in a sentence:

::

gsub "favorite" "favourite" gsub "color" "colour"

Rearrange the words in a sentence, then capitalize the new sentence:

::

burst " " shuffle capitalize