hornc / ADU

Thematic programming language based on Linear A balance ledger tablets

𐘇𐘬 (A-DU)

A-DU is a thematic programming language based on Linear A balance ledger tablets. A-DU (𐘇𐘬) means something like Assessment in Linear A. Most of the meanings and structure and inspiration for the Linear A aspect of this language comes from the work and resources provided online by John G. Younger. A huge thank you to him and his work. Sadly that site is no longer live online, but is available via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20230326030813/http://www.people.ku.edu/~jyounger/LinearA/

This is an archive of a proof-of-concept interpreter and some examples I wrote for this idea in 2018. It may or may not be complete.

Some more information on the language available at: https://esolangs.org/wiki/A-DU

Running the examples

Hello, World!

./adu.py examples/hw.adu

Cat program:

./adu.py examples/cat.adu