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Someone needs to invent "gibberish" or "crazy cat lady". What kinds of humorous programming languages are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is INTERCAL
BrainFuck indeed: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck …wow!
The English language is certainly one of the most flexible ones, on the positive side, and one of loosest ones, on the negative side. In English, even the most stupid thoughts sound right, just because of the language-culture itself. So, it would certainly be very exciting to have e.g. a perfect programming language, expressing itself in say Arabic or Hebrew; but, on the other side, computers and real intelligence (o…
In English, even the most stupid thoughts sound right, just because of the language-culture itself. Well - that certainly doesn't sound right to me.
Anyway, believe me or not: you English ones are certainly the most ignorant in culture anyways; all of non english folks around the world would agree on this...
The English language is certainly one of the most flexible ones, on the positive side, and one of loosest ones, on the negative side. In English, even the most stupid thoughts sound right, just because of the language-culture itself. So, it would certainly be very exciting to have e.g. a perfect programming language, expressing itself in say Arabic or Hebrew; but, on the other side, computers and real intelligence (o…
The language didn't have a running implementation that I know of; it was all paper-based.
("Timba" means "gambling" in Argentinian slang -- for some reason writing TIMBA programs always reminded me of the late Rene Lavand, the one-armed Argentinian magician.)
I suppose it's only right they focused on HUMAN languages, otherwise you'd see machine language up there. Most forms of assembly have always felt like a different language to me ... Someone needs to invent "gibberish" or "crazy cat lady". What kinds of humorous programming languages are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is INTERCAL
The English language is certainly one of the most flexible ones, on the positive side, and one of loosest ones, on the negative side. In English, even the most stupid thoughts sound right, just because of the language-culture itself. So, it would certainly be very exciting to have e.g. a perfect programming language, expressing itself in say Arabic or Hebrew; but, on the other side, computers and real intelligence (o…
What specifically makes English "loose"? What makes other tongues "tight"?
All of that is of course largely irrelevant for programming as the small subset of English words that are used are given precise formal meanings which could be readily exchanged for equivalents in other languages.
They don't seem to distinguish between the language itself and the API. I'd think for many languages the core keywords wouldn't be too hard to translate... Translating the .NET API would be a bigger call (there seem to be examples of this there).
But languages such as Nadeshiko (なでしこ) http://nadesi.com/, a Japanese programming language, may be a challenge for non-Japanese speakers. Its source, especially one- or two-liners, just look like natural Japanese sentences. That means there's no explicit word boundary, and the parsing is based on the particles instead of word positions. (Longer program shows indentations and structures, makes it resembles to other proramming languages).
It's not a joke or experimental language. It aims at scripting for end users, and has pretty decent GUI/database/network bindings. Even a book was published.
I suppose it's only right they focused on HUMAN languages, otherwise you'd see machine language up there. Most forms of assembly have always felt like a different language to me ... Someone needs to invent "gibberish" or "crazy cat lady". What kinds of humorous programming languages are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is INTERCAL
Edit: the "Visual Basic" was my attempt at a joke, but then I googled in "Invisible Basic", thinking that some crafty hacker out for a laugh would have made such a thing. Unfortunately, I don't think this http://invisiblebasic.sourceforge.net/ is a joke.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_langua...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
http://xeny.net/files/Homespring-Proposed-Language-Standard.... [PDF link]
The English language is certainly one of the most flexible ones, on the positive side, and one of loosest ones, on the negative side. In English, even the most stupid thoughts sound right, just because of the language-culture itself. So, it would certainly be very exciting to have e.g. a perfect programming language, expressing itself in say Arabic or Hebrew; but, on the other side, computers and real intelligence (o…