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baudelaire-whitespace

Some time ago, I wrote a program in the esoteric programming language Whitespace. It didn't do anything useful, but even so, I thought it was a pity that it wasn't exactly convenient to run it.

To fix that, I created a REST "web service" using AWS Lambda and API Gateway, and also an HTML/JS client for it, so that the program can be run (and be useless) more conveniently.

Overview

This repository is pretty much a 1:1 replica of the repository baudelaire-brainfuck. After writing the original baudelaire program in brainfuck, I later created a Whitespace equivalent; that means that the program baudelaire.ws behaves the same as baudelaire.b, and as a result the AWS Lambda wrapper and the frontend clients work exactly the same as in baudelaire-brainfuck.

Since everything in this repository is almost the same as in baudelaire-brainfuck, you can read the description there for context and more details. I'll add just a few notes:

• The AWS Lambda handler uses the same interpreter (EsCo), which is possible because it supports Whitespace as well as brainfuck.
• Same as in baudelaire-brainfuck, the program used in the Lambda function is a "minified" version stripped of comments. A non-minified version is available in the directory extras.
• The web client for baudelaire-whitespace is published at https://qwhxm.github.io/baudelaire-whitespace/client.html.