NAME

hq9p - An HQ9+ Interpreter

SYNOPSIS

hq9p program_file

ABSTRACT

The HQ9+ programming language has a simple syntax, and solves several very common problems that plague programmers.

DESCRIPTION

There are four commands. While this is a very simple language, it allows you to easily do some things that would be very difficult in other programming languages.

All commands may appear more than once in your program, but it could produce some nasty output. All commands are case-insensitive.

Commands

h

Prints "Hello, world!" to the screen, sans the quotes. It will be trailed by a new-line character.

q

This makes your program a quine. It will print copies of itself.

9

Prints out the entire lyrics of the "99 bottles of beer on the wall" song.

+

Increments the accumulator.

EXAMPLES

Print "Hello, world!".

h

Print a quine.

q

Print four copies of your program.

qqqq

Increment the accumulator.

+

Do it a lot.

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DIAGNOSTICS

Unknown command: %s

All unknown commands will produce this warning. It's not wholy useful to quit execution, so a warning to STDERR will suffice. Unknown commands are any characters not included in the set case-insensitive set: 'h', 'q', '9', '+', and white-space characters.

Can't open %s: %s

The program will stop execution in the case of being unable to open a file. This may happen for the program file when passed to the interpreter, or when the command 'q' executes.

Can't close %s: %s

The program will stop execution in the rare case of being unable to close a file. This may happen for the program file when passed to the interpreter, or when the command 'q' executes.

AUTHOR

Casey West <casey@geeknest.com>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) Casey West, all rights reserved. This software is governed by the Artistic License found within the source distribution.

SEE ALSO

HQ9+ Language Specification http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/hq9plus.html

cpanm hq9p

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install hq9p