Note: The README.md page and the Docs are written before the release of the language, hence many things will probably change / won't even be implemented.
Cthulhu is (will be) a recreational programming language designed for code golf and number-manipulation.
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Cthulhu will heavily rely on the arities (see the docs) of its functions, and there won't be any functions of unbounded arity (an exception to the rule is printing with
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Cthulhu uses prefix notation. That might seem strange at first, but it has a lot of benefits. For example, many programming languages use infix notation, like so:
2 + 2. The Cthulhu equivalent of that expression is+2 2, with the operator before the two elements it's operating on. -
Because it is designed for number manipulation, Cthulhu has a lot of numerical constants. That is very helpful, especially when performing arithmetic-related tasks. It also has the advantage of removing some whitespace, between the numeric literals. See the sections below for more details.
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Cthulhu does not have implicit printing. That means you must explicitly tell the interpreter that you want to output something.