Many of you know that I created a programming language called Stack in scratch. Many of you also know that I have been working on a new version of the language in python. I am pleased to announce that it is ready to be released into the world! I have been hard at workadding several new features and improvements from the previous version, including

• Lists!
  
• Functions!
  
• Lambdas!
  
• Ultra-efficient recursion! You can recurse FOREVER!!!
  
• Imports! (Thanks liam48D!)
  
• Comments!
  

Installation Instructions:

1. Make sure you have Python 3.
   
2. Download Stack as a zip file from the Stack github repository. The link is at the bottom of the post.
   
3. Unzip the zip. Drag the stack folder (it's a few layers deep) into a location on your Python Module search path.
   
4. Run the command

   py -3 -m stack.cli

   in a terminal if you have python 3.3+. Otherwise, try running

   python -m stack.cli

   You will see some simple greeting text, and a prompt to enter a filename of a Stack program. There are several example programs in the example directory. To run a hello, world program, enter examples/hello_world.stack
   

I plan on making a tutorial on how to use and program Stack, but until then try checking out the wikipedia page for stack-oriented programming languages for how stack-oriented programming languages work, and then check out the example programs for how Stack works specifically, and check out constants.py for the list of commands.

If you have any questions, please post them here and I will do my best to answer

You can find the Stack github repo here

P.S. for all of the Python3 haters: I would like to port this to python2, if anyone would like to help with that. @Ethan_1 has ported it, should be live soon.

SWEET!

WooHooBoy wrote:

SWEET!

Thanks!

BookOwl wrote:

WooHooBoy wrote:

SWEET!

Thanks!

Gonna mess around right now.

edit: I can help with docs if you want.

WooHooBoy wrote:

BookOwl wrote:

WooHooBoy wrote:

SWEET!

Thanks!

Gonna mess around right now.

OK, once you get done, please tell me what you think of it.

BookOwl wrote:

WooHooBoy wrote:

BookOwl wrote:

WooHooBoy wrote:

SWEET!

Thanks!

Gonna mess around right now.

OK, once you get done, please tell me what you think of it.

I love it so far!

Use this.

Cool!

Firedrake969 wrote:

Use this.

But it is Python 3 already!

lol wow
my bad

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/3to2

Firedrake969 wrote:

lol wow
my bad

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/3to2

Why?

Jonathan50 wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

lol wow
my bad

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/3to2

Why?

If any guys uses Py2.

Can you make games using Stack?

sxsaxAr+waxBr-*

meowflash wrote:

Can you make games using Stack?

Of course

Jonathan50 wrote:

meowflash wrote:

Can you make games using Stack?

Of course

What kind of games? Text-based? Platformers? Shooters?

sxsaxAr+waxBr-*

meowflash wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

meowflash wrote:

Can you make games using Stack?

Of course

What kind of games? Text-based? Platformers? Shooters?

Probably all of them.

Jonathan50 wrote:

meowflash wrote:

Jonathan50 wrote:

meowflash wrote:

Can you make games using Stack?

Of course

What kind of games? Text-based? Platformers? Shooters?

Probably all of them.

Oh yeah! Maybe I can make a Text-based Platformer Shooter!

sxsaxAr+waxBr-*

Thanks for the input guys! Here is my plan for stack:

1. Make sure that there are no bugs.
   
2. Create some GOOD documentation.
   
3. Create a module system.
   
4. Add a way to create extension modules in Python.
   
5. Port to Python 2 (very low priority)
   

I could really use some help with this, especially with designing new features and creating documentation (I am not a very good writer ), so if anyone wants to help, please say so.

BookOwl wrote:

Thanks for the input guys! Here is my plan for stack:

1. Make sure that there are no bugs.
   
2. Create some GOOD documentation.
   
3. Create a module system.
   
4. Add a way to create extension modules in Python.
   
5. Port to Python 2 (very low priority)
   

I could really use some help with this, especially with designing new features and creating documentation (I am not a very good writer ), so if anyone wants to help, please say so.

I think porting to Python 2 is rather simple, just like replacing input() with raw_input() and removing encoding/decoding for strings and removing non-ASCII characters from strings.

UPDATE:
I have released a new update to Stack.
It includes two new ops, letterof and reverse, a bug fix, and a new example.

I just started experimenting with this for fun, because I've always used procedural languages before. Pretty cool!

Here's my first project:

One-line:

Pretty cool stuff.