Programming and Pro Gaming: Playing SIC-1

Lately I’ve been obsessed with SIC-1, an open-ended programming game where you learn to write programs in the esoteric assembly language Subleq, which only has a single instruction, to perform various tasks. The Subleq language’s single instruction is, as you might be able to guess, subleq—”subtract and branch if less than or equal to 0”. I really like the gamified format because it’s very…