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Not sure which of these are worth doing, but here are some things I thought would be fun to add.

• Send information to the first Runner via stdin. for example, echo "someinfo" | ircis myprog.txt would execute myprog.txt, but would start the first Runner with "someinfo" in the stack or in a variable?

• Program "jumps" -- put two numbers on the stack for (x, y), and then when you hit a character for the "jump" command, the Runner would jump to that location on the grid.

• Pause command -- will pause the runner for the number of "ticks" indicated by the num on top of the stack.

• Rnd command -- push a random number on top of the stack

• Make timing configurable -- add a configuration option to specify the pace that the visualization HTML will "tick." (Purely cosmetic.)

Thoughts?

Hey @bhudgeons,

I was thinking about using cxxopts for making options handling a lot easier and making main function cleaner.
Since you were the one that implemented it, wanted to know your opinion.
You can find the changes in develop branch.

I'm adding more arithmetic operators, but wanted @batman-nair's opinion on something:

The new operators are pretty straightforward and standard:

| bitwise OR
< bitwise left shift
> bitwise right shift

But I'm not sure about exponentiation and XOR. In C, ^ is XOR, but to the general public 2^3 is usually "2 to the third power," and I think we should use that in IRCIS. But then, what do we use for XOR?

Some candidates:
V
$

and while I'd like to keep it ASCII, there's also

U+22BB ⊻ XOR (HTML ⊻)
U+2295 ⊕ CIRCLED PLUS (HTML ⊕ · ⊕)