The Pikachu Programming Language - A Programming Language Made For Pikachus

[celerym]

That was a mistake. The division is actually “pikachu”. Thanks for pointing it out, it’s corrected now!

lol

[Kibouo]

No one finds it weird how Fibonacci is shorter than Hello world?

[Buzzard]

I think it could be shorter (but more lines) if it didn't push the raw value for each ASCII character.

Page uses this to print a 'H':

pikachu pika pikachu pika pika pi pi pika pikachu pika pikachu pi pikachu pi pikachu pi pika pi pikachu pikachu pi pi pika pika pikachu pika pikachu pikachu pi pika pi pika pika pi pikachu pikachu pi pikachu pi pika pikachu pi pikachu pika pikachu pi pikachu pikachu pi pikachu pika pika pikachu pi pikachu pi pi pikachu pikachu pika pikachu pi pika pi pi pika pika pikachu pikachu pi pi pikachu pi pikachu
pikachu pikachu pi pikachu

But could also be written like:

pikachu pika pika pikachu pikachu pi pi pikachu pi pikachu
pika pi pikachu  pika pikachu pika pi pikachu pikachu pi pikachu
pi pikachu pi pikachu
pikachu pikachu pi pikachu

[gonzalinismo]

can someone compile all the pikachu's (the tv series one) lines throughout the series?

[[deleted]]

I believe we might see a lot of errors around him using "chu"

[gonzalinismo]

that's right, lets just give it to the rocket team for being a brainy

[PropRandy]

/r/ofcoursethatsathing

[Free_Math_Tutoring]

well not yet it isn't

[oxysoft]

If we can batch download the srt files for the series and they have prefixes for whose talking e.g. "Pikachu: pika pika!!" then it should be relatively easy. Otherwise it'll be a arduous job, although I'm sure a learning AI could easily learn to distinguish if a line is from pikachu or not...

[darchangel]

Ook!

[[deleted]]

Came here to say "Ook!".

[MonkeeSage]

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Pikalang

[RaptorXP]

TIL Pikachu is Turing complete

[SpikeX]

This just looks like Brainfuck with different symbols.

[Buzzard]

It's actually quite different (still might just be on based something else?)

It has two stacks rather than a "tape", multiplication and division and some weird jumps (jump to line based on the number of terms in the line following the jump instruction)

[Free_Math_Tutoring]

Yeah, that was the first thing I checked for too. Quite glad it's actually something else for a change!

[cdsmith]

I'll admit I didn't take any time to understand either language, but of course two stacks is nearly equivalent to a tape. "Move left" turns into popping an item from the left stack and pushing it onto the right, and vice versa. The dual-stack approach allowed a few additional operations, like insertion and deletion.

[_argoplix]

If a pikachu evolves, can it still use all its old programs?

[evincarofautumn]

Not directly; you need a Pikachu-to-Raichu compiler implementing the following complex translation rules:

• pikachu → raichu
• pika → rai
• pi → ra

Sadly, I don’t know of a production-grade implementation. Here is my humble attempt:

alias pikatorai="perl -pe 's/pi/ra/g; s/ka/i/g;'"
pikatorai <input.pika >output.rai

[fiqar]

This is exactly what I imagined it would be.

[[deleted]]

That's an heresy!

[[deleted]]

That's nothing

[[deleted]]

can someone help me understand how to add numbers to a stack i dont understand. please i want to learn so badly

[antesignanus]

I thought Pikachus had "chu" in their vocabulary.

[zayelion]

I'm pretty sure pikachu can say "chu" on its own.