sasm

    --------         --------  |\        /|
    |                |         | \      / |
    --------  |---|  --------  |  \    /  |
           |  |   |         |  |   \  /   |
    --------  |___|\ --------  |    \/    |
S t a c k  a n d  S i m p l e  M e s s e n g i n g

What is SaSM?

SaSM is a programming language that is designed not to be easy to read, but to be compact.

Okay, how does it work?

Consider the following example:

'hello ' > 'world\n' >
< concat print --> hello world

What does this all mean? Well,

• 'hello ' and 'world\n' are strings.
• The > operator means to push to the stack.
• The < operator means to pull everything from the stack onto the immediate.
• Then, the 'concat' verb is operated on the immediate, which concatenates the immediate
• The 'print' verb is operated on the immediate, sending the contents of the immediate to STDOUT.
• Everything after the '--' operator is treated as a comment.

It's still not quite clear...

Well, then three things to remember:

• Verbs are the words that act on things, just like in most real languages.
• The 'immediate' is the term used to describe an object passed along a chain of verbs.
• The 'stack' is like a stack of papers. When you 'push' onto the stack, you put another piece of paper, say, a report, on. But when you 'pull' from the stack, you take everything off of it and give it to someone.

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~ That's all folks! ~