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Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#101

@fat and @douglascrockford, the HN community is now satirizing both of you. It's time for you both to do the right thing; add the semicolon to the bootstrap-dropdown.js code and change JSMin to support the original edge case.

bootstrap was changed to avoid jsmin's bug before the ticket was even filed, and crockford added the missing operator cases in jsmin several days ago.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#102
you'd think a program consisting of "only semicolons" would be easier to type. (no pun intended). reverse semicolon? Not only does my keyboard not have one, but Google doesn't even know what it is (other than a unicode character). apparently it was invented by the unicode group.

next time go back to the definition of semicolon, and you will see why it is made of the glyphs , and .

Then you can make a true semicolon language, by mixing ; and ., (horizontal, if you will).

the first line given as an example program would go from ;;;;⁏;;⁏;;; (which doesnt even render in this browser text box for me atm) to ;;;;.,;;.,;;;

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#103

you'd think a program consisting of "only semicolons" would be easier to type. (no pun intended). reverse semicolon? Not only does my keyboard not have one, but Google doesn't even know what it is (other than a unicode character). apparently it was invented by the unicode group. next time go back to the definition of semicolon, and you will see why it is made of the glyphs , and . Then you can make a true semicolon l…

I added a special glyph for the reversed semicolon and used it in @font-face for the website. Can you reload the page and try again?

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#104

you'd think a program consisting of "only semicolons" would be easier to type. (no pun intended). reverse semicolon? Not only does my keyboard not have one, but Google doesn't even know what it is (other than a unicode character). apparently it was invented by the unicode group. next time go back to the definition of semicolon, and you will see why it is made of the glyphs , and . Then you can make a true semicolon l…

I added a special glyph for the reversed semicolon and used it in @font-face for the website. Can you reload the page and try again?

I meant here on hackernews. Your site looks fine!

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#106
post #27

This community is generally fairly dry and to the point, which is a great way to maintain high quality discussions, but I'm enjoying all these fun comments! :)

Yes, I think this is the first HN thread I've seen where jokes aren't being downvoted into oblivion. (And I don't think it's terrible! Fingers crossed that nobody tells me to go back to reddit)

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#107

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…

This is the perfect opportunity to share Acme::Bleach. From the docs; The first time you run a program under use Acme::Bleach, the module removes all the unsightly printable characters from your source file. The code continues to work exactly as it did before, but now it looks like this: use Acme::Bleach; http://search.cpan.org/~dconway/Acme-Bleach-1.13/lib/Acme/Bl...

Depressingly, I've been told of this being used in production.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

#108

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…

See Ellipsis: http://listrophy.github.com/ellipsis/

wow, programming directly in gödel numbers... in brainfuck... in base one... in unicode! i think you win some kind of esolang prize for this one....
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