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title: "A language that you author in a compressed space directly. So Whitney-esk in usi"
author: "NOTimothyLottes"
handle: "@NOTimothyLottes"
post_url: "https://x.com/NOTimothyLottes/status/2079746130309415185"
post_id: "2079746130309415185"
timestamp: "2026-07-22 01:51:31"
post_count: 5
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# @NOTimothyLottes — A language that you author in a compressed space directly. So Whitney-esk in usi

## Post 1 (2026-07-22 01:35:49)

Working through rough draft of assembly for a different idea for a micro macro-forth.
1. 8-bit/word (color to relay meaning)
2. Roughly 62 useful dictionary entries/page
3. Supports paging (to extend dictionary)
4. Supports call/return - but compiler inlines everything
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## Post 2 (2026-07-22 01:40:23) — reply to Post 1

5. Compile step is branch-free
6. Compiles to branch-free x86-64 source
7. Which is then executed

Noticed that I can pre-compile all the dictionary words into a lookup table. So actual compile just writes unaligned 8-bytes but only advances the write pointer by the actual size

## Post 3 (2026-07-22 01:43:56) — reply to Post 2

The interesting bits about this micro project was factoring out all branches, using branch-free interpreter loop to inline all calls so later execution is linear. Got messy doing a branch free software return stack. But costs are relatively low (40 ops/character)

## Post 4 (2026-07-22 01:46:15) — reply to Post 3

Intended usage would be for tiny-gramming programs in self contained chunks that include their own code generation (effectively a macro-forth used to generate machine code).

## Post 5 (2026-07-22 01:51:31) — reply to Post 4

A language that you author in a compressed space directly. So Whitney-esk in using lots of single character variables (or double character with page characters) -BUT- very non-Whitney in that it has no higher order array constructs