Reminds me of japanese anime Dennō Coil, where kids would draw computer programs almost exactly like the author’s on the floor and invoke them as some kind of enchantement. Highly recommend it!

This must be the preferred programming language of the otherworldly main character of Aphyr's "Xing the technical interview" sequence of blog posts [1]. Would definitely deserve its own entry in the series.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/354-unifying-the-technical-interview

This is incredible, what's the license of the work? A derivative of this (using a forth-like with only recursion) would be perfect for the current game project where I'm lacking a visual representation of spells (both written and animated). Mystical provides the missing piece of the puzzle of how users could write their own spells in a structured way within the game and still feel as if it's part of the game world with the same kind of thinking as in regular programming.

Oh you're gonna love this rabbit hole: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/145teoz/isaac_and_the...

    BEFOREHAND: close door, each window & exit; wait until time.
        open spellbook, study, read (scan, select, tell us);
     write it, print the hex while each watches,
        reverse its length, write again;
        kill spiders, pop them, chop, split, kill them.
            unlink arms, shift, wait & listen (listening, wait),
    ...

— Anonymous, "Black Perl" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl