So how exactly does Esoteric Script produce an output? Through the use of HTML that is then rendered in the window the user interacts with. There is also a method of getting input from the HTML into the script, but that’s a topic for a different time. Only output will be discussed here.

Flow control is important for any scripting (and programming) language. Here we’ll talk about typical flow control structures that can be realised within a single state file.

Esoteric Script uses strongly typed variables of 4 (8 counting arrays) types with both implicit and explicit conversion operations.

Esoteric Script is based on a prefix syntax, known also as a Polish notation. This might look confusing at first but you get used to it pretty fast.

As mentioned before every automaton is a scope for variables. But there’s a bit more to the scoping.

The code in Esoteric script is divided up into states, which are grouped into automatons.