This is a web-based interpreter for the LOOP, WHILE, and GOTO programming languages. The parser and compiler understand each language by itself, but also arbitrary combinations of language elements of all three languages.
The parser can be configured to allow any subset of the three languages.
LOOP was originally specified in The complexity of loop programs (1967) by Albert R. Meyer and Dennis M. Richie.
Unlike most modern programming languages (and unlike WHILE and GOTO), this programming language is not Turing-complete. The set of functions that can be computed by LOOP programs is the set of primitive recursive functions, which is a subset of the set of Turing-computable functions.
WHILE is
very similar to LOOP but allows WHILE
statements in addition to the basic
LOOP
construct. This programming language is Turing-complete.
GOTO (German Wikipedia page)
does not require LOOP
or WHILE
statements, but is just as expressive as
WHILE.
Syntactically, GOTO is mostly compatible with LOOP and WHILE. However, the
synax of IF
statements is slightly different. The interpreter allows
using either syntax in all three languages.