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

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Post by h4pless » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

skriticos2 wrote: post #3

I love how even the JS implementation contains almost only the word chicken repeatedly.

I like the Chicken he threw in after the return for good measure. Just didn't have enough chicken without it.

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

#62

Post by superpatosainz » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 6:00 PM UTC

SteveBallmer#: A language whose only symbol is "developers".

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

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Post by drv » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 6:23 PM UTC

h4pless wrote: post #61

skriticos2 wrote: post #3

I love how even the JS implementation contains almost only the word chicken repeatedly.

I like the Chicken he threw in after the return for good measure. Just didn't have enough chicken without it.

My JavaScript is a bit fuzzy, but I think those last two lines actually parse as `return chicken.Chicken;`, so the last Chicken is actually significant.

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

#64

Post by JohnLBevan » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 7:57 PM UTC

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #9

hodor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYm6aMMcFu8

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

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Post by ISL » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 8:11 PM UTC

codereflection wrote: post #53

I dare say that Brainfuck has a worthy challenger in the category of driving one insane.

At least chicken chicken lacks the active hostility of INTERCAL.

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

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Post by h4pless » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 8:18 PM UTC

drv wrote: post #63

h4pless wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I like the Chicken he threw in after the return for good measure. Just didn't have enough chicken without it.

My JavaScript is a bit fuzzy, but I think those last two lines actually parse as `return chicken.Chicken;`, so the last Chicken is actually significant.

You're totally right. I was reading it like a sentence. My bad.

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

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Post by laumars » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 8:36 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #35

bnegreve wrote: post #28

Error messages are very clear and understandable which is definitely a plus. For example: Error on line 1: expected 'chicken'

TypeError: Expected, chicken : Found, chicken

That's got to be the funniest error message I've read

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

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Post by maddddddddddddd » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 8:57 PM UTC

"It inspired me to create a programming language with only a single valid symbol"... let me know when you do that... your current implementation also uses whitespace characters such as space and newline as symbols.

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

#69

Post by mcwhittemore » Mon, Jul 01, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

If Torbjörn Söderstedt would like to explain how chicken.js works - there is now an open stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17414435/how-does-chicken...

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

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Post by mcwhittemore » Tue, Jul 02, 2013, 3:30 AM UTC

mcwhittemore wrote: post #69

If Torbjörn Söderstedt would like to explain how chicken.js works - there is now an open stackoverflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17414435/how-does-chicken...

seems stackoverflow though this question was too fowl for them and asked me to push it over to codereview -> http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/28015/how-does...