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:Author: 		Kore Nordmann
:Date:			Fri, 27 Jul 2007 20:48:10 +0200
:Revision: 		7
:Copyright:		CC by-sa


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KaForkL IDE (alpha)
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:Description: I just finished a more complex "99 bottles of beer" example and
  a first version of a IDE to develop KaForkL programs.

As `Toby`__ already mentioned two days ago, I recently had the idea to write
some kind of `a small programming language`__ using some benefits images offer
over normal text files: They are two dimensional and you can consider each
pixel as a four-tuple which enables you to encode a bunch of information in
each point of your image. I added a `rough description`__ on my website.

__ http://schlitt.info/applications/blog/index.php?/archives/524-Kore-going-mad-again-kaforkl.html
__ http://kore-nordmann.de/home/kaforkl_image_programming_language
__ http://kore-nordmann.de/home/kaforkl_image_programming_language

.. image:: ide_small.png
   :alt:   Screenshot

But the main point is, that I discovered, that it is quite hard to write
programs without being able to use my normal development environment (vim). So
I wrote a `small (still very alpha) IDE`__ which helps a lot writing KaForkL
programs. Thanks to `the php-gtk guys`__ , who made it possible to write such
a thing within only a few hours, by their hard work they put in this fantastic
extension. You can see a `screenshot`__ on the right.

__ http://kore-nordmann.de/home/kaforkl_image_programming_language/kaforkl_ide
__ http://gtk.php.net/
__ /projects/kaforkl/ide_full.png

.. image:: 99_bottles_of_beer.png
   :alt:   99 bottles of beer
   :align: left

Using the IDE I was able to write a better "99 bottles of beer" example, which
now makes use of loops, conditions, the stack and forking. Check it out and
try it using the IDE - it's fun to see the processors walking all over the
image :-).

As usual you can find everything available in a `svn repository`__ .

__ http://kore-nordmann.de/home/kaforkl_image_programming_language/get_kaforkl

You all already thought, that I am mad, didn't you?


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