GolfScript GolfScript is a stack oriented esoteric programming language aimed at solving problems (holes) in as few keystrokes as possible. It also aims to be simple and easy to write.



Short code is achieved by using single symbols to represent high level operations (such as map, join, array size, etc). Being stack based allows for functions and other manipulations to work without the need for explicit variables, however variables still exist and are useful for more complicated stack manipulations.



To learn GolfScript, start with the tutorial and download the implementation. After you are comfortable with it, you may want to check out exactly how code is parsed and see all of the built ins.



If you have any suggestions or find any bugs please email me at golfscript at golfscript.com.



News April 30, 2013: Peter Taylor provided a patch to speed up the operation of flatten, which was really inefficient (this has been merged to main version now). Jan 6, 2013: Be sure to check out Rebmu another new human-readable code golf language by Brian Dickens, but with a completely different execution model. Dec 5, 2012: Fixed behavior of array slicing when indexing out of bounds, []1> now returns [] instead of causing errors. Thanks again Ilmari. Dec 3, 2012: Fixed a bug with nested do loops (ie "{ {0}do 1} do }" terminating). Thank you Ilmari Karonen! Oct 31, 2011: Happy Halloween! '?' operator now works correctly for finding substrings in strings, or strings in arrays. Thank you Peter Taylor! Dec 31, 2007: Ah major bug with new input method fixed. Dec 26, 2007: Interpreter made compliant with ruby 1.9.

If no input is provided, uses empty string instead of waiting for user input.

New operators ( ) added.

~ applied to an array now dumps elements onto stack.

New % behavior added. Array Array % now acts like / but with empty results removed. Dec 19, 2007: Bug fix, unpack('c*') caused binary characters to be negative. Dec 14, 2007: GolfScript is 53rd language added to shinh's golf server. Thanks shinh! Currently the number one ranked language's average score is about 7000, let's see how much we can make it drop. Dec 13, 2007: GolfScript released! GolfScript is a stack oriented esoteric programming language aimed at solving problems () in as few keyas possible. It also aims to be simple and easy to write.Short code is achieved by using single symbols to represent high level operations (such as map, join, array size, etc). Being stack based allows for functions and other manipulations to work without the need for explicit variables, however variables still exist and are useful for more complicated stack manipulations.To learn GolfScript, start with the tutorial and download the implementation. After you are comfortable with it, you may want to check out exactly how code is parsed and see all of the built ins.If you have any suggestions or find any bugs please email me at golfscript at golfscript.com.