Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

github.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

121–130 of 215 posts

Re: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

#121

Post by myco_logic »

stefncb wrote: post #56
tuchsen wrote: post #2

This is great. Usually with the joke programming languages, you can get at least one person arguing that "x feature" really isn't all that bad, or could maybe be useful. DreamBerd beats them all in that regard. It is 100% terrible! I lost it at the lifetimes implementation.

I honestly liked the whitespace significant operator precedence.

I also quite liked that idea. It would probably be a nightmare to actually use, but it's definitely a creative solution to dealing with infix operator precedence.

The only implemented language I know of with this feature is the obscure array lang I (an incrementation of the J language's name I assume) by Marshall Lochbaum:

https://github.com/mlochbaum/ILanguage

Re: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

#123

Post by lannisterstark »

adammarples wrote: post #87
CyberDildonics wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

If you are constantly exclaiming, you are likely to become breathless. Exclaimations are signified with an Exclaimation mark. Pauses and other timing can be signified with commas, dashes and ellipses.

... this entire comment chain is weird AF.

Re: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

#126

Post by squeaky-clean »

llimos wrote: post #104
tuchsen wrote: post #2

This is great. Usually with the joke programming languages, you can get at least one person arguing that "x feature" really isn't all that bad, or could maybe be useful. DreamBerd beats them all in that regard. It is 100% terrible! I lost it at the lifetimes implementation.

The 'previous' feature sounds like a great idea! The compiler could even decide which variables it needs to keep track of.

I think it would lead to a lot of hard to find logical bugs in a lot of projects but I think it would be a great operator in say, a scripting language for a turn based game.

Re: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

#127

Post by squeaky-clean »

pmontra wrote: post #21
tuchsen wrote: post #2

This is great. Usually with the joke programming languages, you can get at least one person arguing that "x feature" really isn't all that bad, or could maybe be useful. DreamBerd beats them all in that regard. It is 100% terrible! I lost it at the lifetimes implementation.

This feature is not so bad: > In case you really need to vary a variable, the when keyword lets you check a variable each time it mutates. const var health = 10! when (health = 0) { print("You lose")! } If it can really be triggered when the variable changes to any value it makes it a truly reactive paradigm programming language. By the way, could that be hacked to implement loops? const var i = 10 when (i >= 0) { do…

It's basically a syntactic sugar on an Observer pattern but I like it. You would need a way to turn off 'when' observers. And I suppose it does couple the observer to the observable pretty tightly.

Re: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

#129

Post by jamiek88 »

lannisterstark wrote: post #123
adammarples wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you are constantly exclaiming, you are likely to become breathless. Exclaimations are signified with an Exclaimation mark. Pauses and other timing can be signified with commas, dashes and ellipses.

... this entire comment chain is weird AF.

Oh don’t be so mean, sometimes robots need help understanding humans.

Re: DreamBerd is a perfect programming language

#130

Post by Jiro »

pmontra wrote: post #21
tuchsen wrote: post #2

This is great. Usually with the joke programming languages, you can get at least one person arguing that "x feature" really isn't all that bad, or could maybe be useful. DreamBerd beats them all in that regard. It is 100% terrible! I lost it at the lifetimes implementation.

This feature is not so bad: > In case you really need to vary a variable, the when keyword lets you check a variable each time it mutates. const var health = 10! when (health = 0) { print("You lose")! } If it can really be triggered when the variable changes to any value it makes it a truly reactive paradigm programming language. By the way, could that be hacked to implement loops? const var i = 10 when (i >= 0) { do…

Isn't that basically a computed COME FROM?
Post reply on HN