A deliberately-poor Go wrapper to write Go programs with Pokémon names and types as keywords in the language.

Created by Jannotta House for UChicago's 2020 Scav item #85:

pokemon-go. No, DEFINITELY not Pokémon Go. pokemon-go: your programming language that is just a crappy wrapper for Go, where all the keywords are now Pokémon. It should be at least able to execute your equivalent of go run, but we wouldn’t object if it had more functionality.

1. Install the Go distribution from this link and add the binaries to your PATH.
2. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/spencerng/pokego.git
   

3. Build the pokego binary and make it executable (on Linux):

   go build pokego.go
   chmod +x pokego
   

4. (optional) Add the pokego binary to your PATH to call it from anywhere using pokego instead of ./pokego.

pokego works identically to the go binary, except .pgo source files require you to use the keyword names specified in dict.json. To run a program, execute

./pokego run myprogram.pgo

Additional Pokego commands can be viewed with

./pokego help

To run our versions of HelloWorld and FizzBuzz programs, execute the following:

./pokego run samples/helloworld.pgo
./pokego run samples/mewtwo.pgo

The Pokego version of the interpreter can also be compiled with Pokego by running ./pokego build samples/pokego.pgo

Feel free to create your own programs with the .pgo extension!

Contact spencerng [at] uchicago [dot] edu if you have any questions about entering the world of pokego.