Last week there was the semicolon language (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854130), now parentheses. My guess is next week we'll see the tilde language.
Show HN: A programming language that uses only parentheses
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#22This made my day
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#23You are a complete idiot :D
(good fun thumbs up)
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#24Wow. The first ever modern langage I have seen in years. :+p
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#25Hey! I made a programming language that only uses 1s and 0s... oh wait, never mind.
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#26Considering how numbers are represented, I'm reminded of John Horton Conway's article on Surreal Numbers, wherein he starts with an empty set and one rule, and derives the totality of all numbers. Could make for an interesting basis for a language.
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#27My programming language that uses only ellipses got buried last week. Yes, a programming language with one character, and no whitespace.
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#28Last week there was the semicolon language ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3854130 ), now parentheses. My guess is next week we'll see the tilde language.
See Ellipsis: http://listrophy.github.com/ellipsis/
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#29In pure functional programming, so well mentioned in some PG's articles, you have only functions - no numbers. You can make numbers from functions, though. Then, you may have a basis - a set of functions which are sufficient to represent arbitrarily complex algorithm, i.e., Turing complete set; see here - http://dkeenan.com/Lambda/ .
Such a set may consist from only one function. So, the whole program is a structure of calling that function. Writing down such a program, we obviously don't need to write the function - it comes by default; we only need to write the structure, which can be represented by ( and ) . In a different way, than what I see here, but still - one bit per parenthesis, very simple processor, lots of memory and lots of steps for simple operations - a Turing tarpit...
Re: Show HN: A programming language that uses only parentheses
#30Considering how numbers are represented, I'm reminded of John Horton Conway's article on Surreal Numbers , wherein he starts with an empty set and one rule, and derives the totality of all numbers. Could make for an interesting basis for a language.