Reminds me of brainfuck. On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Marko Rodriguez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > Last night I was cruisin’ around Wikipedia and was checking out various > programming languages. One in particular caught my eye — APL. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#Game_of_Life > > I thought it would be neat to have different type of syntax to express > Gremlin traversals and came up with the following "2D pipes” language. > > https://gist.github.com/okram/cfb526bf01c36c1e4001de6b3dc0f60c > > Basically, there are “piping” symbols that dictate traverser flow: > - ^ / \ > These pipes link the steps, where commonly used steps have a short-hand > syntax. > > The translator to go from this to Gremlin bytecode seems pretty simple. > The internal data structure for the language is: > > List<List<String>> > > This give you the 2D matrix. You then can go “up and down” the lists and > “left and right” along the tokens, where the - ^ \ / pipes tell you how to > move about the List<List<String>> structure. > > Does anyone think this is cool? > > Marko. > > http://markorodriguez.com > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gremlin-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/gremlin-users/B347B223-FD64-4F5C-9E65-7F50CF72BF38%40gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gremlin-users/B347B223-FD64-4F5C-9E65-7F50CF72BF38%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Robert Dale
