Unreadable

Unreadable is an esoteric programming language made by User:TehZ. As the name hints, it is made specifically to be unreadable.

Alphabet

The only characters are " and '. With a font where " looks like '' (such as Arial; see " compared to ''), it is like programming in Whitespace; you cannot tell what you are doing. No spaces or newlines are allowed.

Syntax

The syntax is:

  command = ' "+ command*

As you can see, the syntax is really simple and unreadable.

Commands

The commands are:

'"X	Print X as a Unicode character and return X.
'""X	Return X + 1.
'"""	Return 1.
'""""XY	Do both X and Y and return what Y returned.
'"""""XY	Do Y while X is not 0 and return the last result.
'""""""XY	Set variable number X to Y and return Y.
'"""""""X	Return the value of variable X, or 0 if the variable has never been assigned.
'""""""""X	Return X - 1.
'"""""""""XYZ	If X is not 0 do Y else do Z. Return what Y/Z returned.
'""""""""""	Return a single Unicode character which has been read from stdin, or -1 if stdin is exhausted.

Limits/bounds

There are no max values, and no bounds in this language.

Computational class

Unreadable is Turing complete because it is possible to convert a brainfuck program to Unreadable:

• Reserve the first variable as the tape pointer.
• Make +/- increment/decrement the variable it points to.
• Make >/< increment/decrement the pointer.
• Make [] become a loop that checks for the variable that the first variable points to.
• Make . print the variable the first pointer points to and make , read input into that variable.

Interpreters

• Command-line interpreter by User:Marinus (written in Python).
• Esoteric IDE that supports Unreadable (GitHub)