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Piet is a milestone experiment among the esoteric programming languages, but I believe that it falls short of achieving its goal to make programs look like Mondrian paintings unless the developer really intends to do so.

I wish the language structure were designed in a way that anything that’s “written” with it would look like a Mondrian painting.



Yes well unfortunately Mondrian only really used the primary colours so that would be rather limiting


But FWIW Mondrian also showed how to convert a more conventional style into his signature style. This can be seen in Still Life with Gingerpot, numbers 1 and 2.


It could be done. The FizzBuzzLang esolang uses only the words FIZZ, BUZZ and FIZZBUZZ.


Could encode more operators into shape ratios / proportions, line thickness etc.


just have to make them really big




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