Thue

A language by John Colagioia

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For want of a nail,
  the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe,
  the horse was lost.
For want of a horse,
  the knight was lost.
For want of a knight,
  the battle was lost.
So it was a kingdom was lost,
  all for the want of a nail.

-- George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum (Colloqual Adaptation)

Introduction

The Thue programming language was invented by John Colagioia in early 2000. It is named after the computational regimen it is based on - a pure string-rewriting process called a semi-Thue grammar, which is named for (and possibly created by) the Norwegian mathematician Axel Thue (pronounced "TOO-ay").

Thue represents one of the simplest possible ways to convey constraint-based programming. It is to the constraint-based paradigm what languages like OISC are to the imperative paradigm; in other words, it's a tar pit.

Available Resources

Download entire subtree: thue.tar.gz | thue.tar.bz2 | thue.zip
thue.zip	27461	Thue Distribution (original, John Colagioia)
thue.txt	4126	The Thue Reference Manual (sic)
src/	directory	source code to various implementations of Thue
	Download entire subtree: src.tar.gz | src.tar.bz2 | src.zip thue.py 7908 Thue Interpreter in Python by Frédéric van der Plancke thue.c 4252 Thue Interpreter in C, by John Colagioia
eg/	directory	example programs written in Thue
	Download entire subtree: eg.tar.gz | eg.tar.bz2 | eg.zip inc.t 88 (no comment) test.t 32 (no comment) add_bin.t 1140 (no comment) hello.t 36 (no comment) dec.t 91 (no comment) incany.t 114 (no comment)

Last Updated Jan 27 2001 Cat's Eye Technologies.