Ases

Ases is an esoteric programming language developed with the objective of be more useful as possible. You can see examples of code clicking here.

To install, just run:

$ make
$ sudo make install

For see help about usage, run:

$ ases -h

Documentation

The documentation is generated with Doxygen. For see it online, click here.

Characteristics

• 12 registers A, B, C .. L with the size of 2 bytes.
• Data Pointer of 2 bytes to point the data memory location.
• Stack of 2 bytes for work with instructions and functions.
• Any characters that is not a instruction is ignored.

Instructions

Command	Description
a .. l	Stores the value of the stack to correspondent register
A .. L	Gets the value of the correspondent register and stores in the stack
p	Stores the value of the stack in the Data Pointer
P	Gets the value of the Data Pointer and stores in the stack
$	Stores the address of the next instruction in L register
*	Jumps for the instruction pointed by the value of L register
(	Jumps for the address of the symbol @ matched in the right
)	Jumps for the address of the symbol @ matched in the left
@	Does nothing
!	Stores the value of the stack in the data memory location pointed by Data Pointer
=	Gets the value in the data memory location pointed by Data Pointer and stores in the stack
>	Increments the value of Data Pointer
<	Decrements the value of Data Pointer
+	Increments the value of the stack
-	Decrements the value of the stack
.	Clears the value of the stack
?	Only executes the next instruction if the value of the stack is zero
~	Only executes the next instruction if the value of the stack not is zero
#	Commentary of one line

Functions

Function	Description
0	Gets input of one character and stores in the stack
1	Prints a character stored in the stack
2	Prints the message "ERROR!" and stops the program (exit status = 255)
3	Exits the program with the status code defined by the value of the stack
4	Adds the value of the A register with the value of the stack
5	Subtracts the value of the A register with the value of the stack
6	Adds 10 to the stack
7	Subtracts 10 of the stack
8	Prints the state of the machine
9	If A > B, sets stack to zero. One otherwise