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> What does an algorithm look like?

Writing Piet by hand is a fun way to explore this. Sergei Lewis[1] and I[2] have each written tools to generate Piet code. Sergei's assembler makes much nicer looking code than my Piet backend. All you can really see from my compiler's output is that I'm really lazy and used a trampoline[3]

[1] http://www.toothycat.net/wiki/wiki.pl?MoonShadow/Piet

[2] https://github.com/boothby/repiet/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trampoline_(computing)



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