GPLZ - The Great Python Language Zoo

GPLZ is a bunch of loosely related programming languages, all implemented in python and all using the same internal code representation. It was designed to make it easy to include new input methods. Currently, the following languages are implemented

• Files ending with .yacuabll are encoded in yet another completely useless and badly labelled language.
• Files ending with .gertrude are encoded in the Gertrude Stein Memorial Language.
• Files ending with .: are encoded in the Dot Colon language.
• Files ending with .chef are encoded in the fine CHEF language.
• Files ending with .easy are encoded using a very plain and easy to understand syntax.
• Files ending with .((o)) are encoded in a bracket-mania syntax dubbed ((o)).
• Files ending with . (thats a dot and a blank space) are encoded in a very funny looking syntax that consists mainly of spaces, tabs and newlines.
• Files ending with ./ do not exist, rather they designate a directory structure that encodes the program - a concept uniquely to GPLZ.

Download

You can download the whole gplz package in a zipped archive here.

Using the interpreter

GPLZ has basically two modes of operation - it can be used to either run files in a given syntax, or convert from one syntax to another. To run a file, you simply give its name as argument:

C:\Python20\gplz> gplz.py fibonacci.easy

will, for example, print the first 20 fibonacci numbers from a sourcecode written in the easy syntax. If you specify a second filename, gplz will translate the file to the given syntax. For example, to generate a directory tree that calculates the first 20 fibonacci numbers, you'd write 

C:\Python20\gplz> gplz.py fibonacci.easy fibonacci./

Note that for files in ". ", you'll need to enclose the filename in brackets.