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Re: Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language

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But then he would run the risk of confusing future programmers "Now, which comes first..."

What matters more is which ships first.

Furthermore, when this is implemented in ObjectiveC, the Apple app store will require all chicken-chicken-based apps to be fully cooked (and all eggs hard boiled).

Re: Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language

#42
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Chicken chicken chickens, chicken? Chicken.

--Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken? --Chicken?

Syntax error Example usage: chicken -chicken --chicken chicken > chicken

Re: Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language

#43

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But then he would run the risk of confusing future programmers "Now, which comes first..."

What matters more is which ships first.

Not really. Cue the patent trolls!

Um, I mean patent chickens, of course.

Re: Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language

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I was also dismayed to find out that rather than being a mainstream post about my favorite little scheme... I'm greeted by an esoteric language of the same name.

It looks fantastic, just the kind of thing I'm looking for - I know Racket rather than Scheme, though, how different are the two languages?

It depends on how you use Racket, since it is actually a family of languages, but if you use R5RS I would say it should be really easy to port apps between them. And the community is great so I don't think you would have problem picking it up

Re: Show HN: Chicken chicken chicken – chicken chicken programming language

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I have to ask: What does this Acme stand for?

It doesn't stand for anything - it's the company that Wile E. Coyote orders wacky equipment from in the cartoons in order to defeat the Road Runner. It's the namespace in CPAN for joke modules.

Thank you, I had been wondering about that every now and then.
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