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@neauoire @chrisamaphone Have you ever played around with L-Systems (I bet you did :)? It seems there's a lot of conceptual overlap here, even though they don't offer much in terms of control flow or Turing completeness. I just think they generally still remain somewhat under exposed/explored (beyond the traditional Turtle graphics applications). If you attach different kinds of interpreters, they can be pushed pretty far... In the past I have used them for genetic programming, text & code generation, music composition, and even basic stack machines (where the L-System acts as an iterative macro expansion stage)...

A couple of FizzBuzz examples (incl. a super basic Forth-like VM) using thi.ng/lsys...

gist.github.com/postspectacula

thi.ng/lsysFunctional, extensible L-System architecture w/ support for probabilistic rules