The biggest obstacle to me using TrollScript professionally is lack of testing tools. Troll-driven development is a fundamental tenet of XP which I'm not willing to forsake. Is anyone working on TSUnit or TSSpec? In addition, Cuke4Trolls would be a worthwhile project. I'd like to practice behaviour-driven trolling expressed in natural troll language, so TrollScript seems like the perfect target.
TrollScript, an esoteric dialect of Brainfuck.
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#22Part of the troll is that it's programmed on top of Ruby...
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#23Not another scripting language. Google announcing Dart and now this?. I think I like the syntax improvements though.
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#25I can't understand why anyone would choose to use this language. Clearly it is unreadable and I highly doubt this scales. Can somebody give me a good reason for using this on my Facebook clone instead of a more mature language such as PHP, Python or Java? Also, I heard somebody was developing a web framework, Trolls under Bridges. Has anybody heard about this?
Sorry, meant to vote up.
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#26Get back to me when I can write it in an IDE with syntax highlighting and content assist.
How do I parse Trollscript with Regular Expressions?
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#28As amusing as I find all this, can you imagine what would happen if one of these took off? I had enough trouble several years ago convincing my boss that we really did need to get a copy of Satan... can you imagine trying to even fill out a PO to order 1000 licenses of Brainfuck with the optional TrollScript extension?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like either they were messing with you; you are messing with us; or Alexander Interactive doesn't respect their applicants
Impossible, or seemingly impossible, interview questions are actually quite useful. It can be quite informative to see how the applicant response to such a situation, and what their "Oh shit, wasn't expecting this" emergency problem solving techniques are.
Which is another way of saying, messing with people is a respectable interview tactic--see how they react to a little nudge.
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#30Someone (definitely not me) should make a GCTA version of this where the 'codons' map to the 8 opcodes.
Then you can execute any DNA string ;)