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A programming language made up of Rajinikanth punch dialogues

Punchscript

An imperative language made up of Rajinikanth punch dialogues. It currently supports only Integer data types.

Here is how Fizz Buzz in Punchscript looks like:

Screenshot of Punchscript code

More examples are in the tests directory.

Installation

Latest stable version of OCaml (developed in version 4.06.0) should be obtained from opam.

Install menhir, js_of_ocaml and other dependencies

$ opam depext -i core merlin utop ocp-indent
$ opam depext -i menhir js_of_ocaml-compiler sedlex
$ opam depext -i js_of_ocaml js_of_ocaml-ppx js_of_ocaml-lwt 

Use the Makefile to build a release target producing the javascript file:

$ make release

Go to the web directory and run any local web server, for e.g.:

$ python3 -m http.server

You can also create OCaml bytecode executable for debug and testing:

$ make debug

License

GNU GPL ver 3. See the file COPYING for details.

(C) 2018 by Arun Ravindran