Theseus is a simple yet powerful programming language. There are two main ideas.
- Theseus uses strings, nothing else. There are no numbers, booleans or functions. Everything is a string.
- Theseus programs are self-modifying. Or maybe they just generate new Theseus programs. It's hard to say.
Theseus is simple enough that the entire documentation fits in this table:
| Command | Action |
|---|---|
print <string> |
prints the contents of the string to stdout. |
import <string> |
replaces the line itself with the contents of the file named by the string. |
<string> -> <string> |
Replaces every match of the left-hand side regular expression with the right-hand side |
exec |
Rerun the modified program |