GNU Poke - Programming language

GNU Poke is an open source programming language created in 2017 by Jose E. Marchesi.

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GNU poke is a new interactive editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural, interactive programming language designed to describe data structures and to operate on them.

Tags: programming language, editor
Guile influenced the design of GNU Poke
GNU Poke is written in C, Make, Expect, M4, Bourne shell, Lex, Yacc, Vim script, CSS, Lisp, sed, awk, Scheme, Nix, Pascal

Example from the web:

# The following two lines are dot commands
.load my-pickle.pk
.set obase 16

# The following line is a Poke statement
dump :size 0x100#B :from 0x10#B

# The following line is a Poke expression statement without any side effect.
# Consequently it is valid, but rather useless.
4 == 4

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
MultiLine Comments	✓	#!/usr/bin/poke -L !#