Semicolon: A language of semicolons • Hacker News Board

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by fooooobar » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 9:54 PM UTC

I'm creating a platform called Polyp, so everyone can write asynchronous server programs in Semicolon.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by collypops » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:08 PM UTC

I'm already way ahead of the curve. I've started writing my scripts without semicolons and I'm getting 100% code compression using even the most rudimentary minifiers. Get with the times, already!

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by jaylevitt » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:13 PM UTC

sophacles wrote: post #25

rmcclellan wrote: post #6

Seems like a nice companion to Whitespace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

Whitespace is too slow for big systems. The non-implicit nature of semicolon will really allow for prime-time server stacks. I do think though that whitespace will retain its market share on the front end.

So what I hear you saying is that Semicolon is webscale.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by jaylevitt » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:15 PM UTC

A path exists from the Semicolon language to Robert Klein's aphorism that "a sigmoidoscopy is just a semicolonoscopy". Someone please do that.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by michaelfeathers » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:20 PM UTC

Does it have a working minimizer?

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by naragon » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:27 PM UTC

My first thought when I saw the site was 'Someone has way too much free time on their hands.'

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by hobbyist » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:33 PM UTC

Cool, why interpret it? Right a compiler for it now :-)

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by rodh257 » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

This certainly takes things further than my simple SemicolonScript idea, nicely done. http://rodhowarth.com/semicolonscript/

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by rometest » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

Can you please make this configurable? Instead of ;, we can use : @ * etc or something like language of smiley's :)

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by delinka » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 11:00 PM UTC

I had this exact thought when the semicolon drama started days ago.

I'm a fan of removing ambiguity in code. I parenthesize when not necessary so that intent is clear (someone in the future will hire a complete newbie to read and "fix" this code.) I want the statement to end here --> ";" and anything else is an error - now the compiler can inform me when a mistake is made. I ask what appear to be the most asinine questions because when you say "smooth ass ride" there's a difference between a "smooth-ass ride" and a "smooth ass-ride."

And as I type all this, I begin to create a connection between all those txtspk hooligans and semicolon haters. Anyway, I'm happy that Semicolon now exists.