Roland's Puzzle Challenge #8: Blame Barrin

[Roland Sackville]

Roland's Puzzle Challenge #8 -- Piet de Resistance
Difficulty -- Impossible
Google allowed? -- Most definitely

((You can all blame Barrin for this one -- she wanted an impossible one. I can't take credit for it either; while I modified this one slightly, I had to stick pretty closely to a pre-existing puzzle, or risk screwing it up. Pretty sure I got it right, though. Pretty sure.))

No instructions. No hints ((..yet)). No guidance. Just some pretty colors, and some words.

[Brigid Plunder]

"...what. The. Hell?" Brigid muttered, looking at the sheet.

[ASHLIE]

"That's Piet Visual Programming." Ashlie cheerfully points out. "The small ones are three, two, input required, one, input required, two, four, input required and input required. The large one also asks for input."

[Aisha Khan]

"Those are words." Aisha satd to ASHLIE

[ASHLIE]

"The colors indicate steps in a program. They're pretty bad programs though. All they do is loop."

[Aisha Khan]

"Absolutely freaking great." Aisha said "And I bet he learned to program like, back when they were still using punch cards."

[Theresa McMasters]

"Special place in hell for people who come up with these languages," Theresa muttered.

[Roland Sackville]

((Note: Because this one is so fiendishly difficult, I'll take one question per person every 24 hours. Only one, though, so make it count))

[Roland Sackville]

((QUESTION ANSWERED: No, you do not have to change any of the colored blocks in order to solve the puzzle.))

[ASHLIE]

"These loops are making my head hurt." Ashlie says, sending everyone a tool to run the images.

http://www.bertnase.de/npiet/
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And the "main" one:

[Steve Jones]

"I bet dad could solve this easy..." Steve grumbled to himself.

[Roland Sackville]

((QUESTION ANSWERED: The final answer is not a sentence.))

[Roland Sackville]

((QUESTION ANSWERED: At some point, you will have to combine some and/or all of the small programs to advance the solution. While it IS brute forcible, I don't recommend it, as there exists clues to help you figure that bit out.))

[Roland Sackville]

((QUESTION ANSWERED: Yes, the hint for the combination of the small programs is present in the programs.))

[Roland Sackville]

((QUESTION ANSWERED: Yes, the hint is hidden within the program itself, not the pictures.))

[Roland Sackville]

((QUESTION ANSWERED: If a program starts repeating itself, you can stop -- no new data will be generated, or, if it is, it will not be relevant.))