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Re: Dogescript

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Post by steveklabnik »

victorf wrote: post #79
steveklabnik wrote: post #7

What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit. Utility is not the end goal of everything.

I recall when LOL Cats were actually pretty funny, way back around "I has a flavor". Then people who didn't understand the language [1] overran the Internet with cats that had incredible vocabularies and immaculate grammar (they just didn't know how to spell and were evil). The only thing that bothers me about Dogescript is that the joke is too forced. The typical Shibe pictures are just "wow", "such X", "very Y", "w…

The most appropriate reply is http://mybfolder.com/picture.php?id=971 I think ;)

Re: Dogescript

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Post by [deleted] »

victorf wrote: post #79
steveklabnik wrote: post #7

What's funny about this is that every comment here is calling this useless, yet it's something that's very much in the hacker spirit. Utility is not the end goal of everything.

I recall when LOL Cats were actually pretty funny, way back around "I has a flavor". Then people who didn't understand the language [1] overran the Internet with cats that had incredible vocabularies and immaculate grammar (they just didn't know how to spell and were evil). The only thing that bothers me about Dogescript is that the joke is too forced. The typical Shibe pictures are just "wow", "such X", "very Y", "w…

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Re: Dogescript

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Post by Lockyy »

Yay, looping just for those who're upset.

  very mad is true 
  many mad 
      plz console.loge with "rawr rawr stop posting amusing/funny things" 
  wow

Re: Dogescript

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Post by moron4hire »

jerf wrote: post #48
thenerdfiles wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, no... I disagree that this is any viable dialect of canines. Moreover, no cognitive system of canine can corroborate this as a valid dialect of canines. It's English-projection. At best it's mockery of canine dialects.

Very well then, how about http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/ook.html ?

hate to say this, but I once did something like this for the Pokemon character Pikachu (even though I can't stand Pokemon), and then the South Park character Timmy, and then generalized the two to make a configurable system for characters with one-word vocabularies to be able to program.

I really wish I hadn't deleted that program.

Re: Dogescript

#90

Post by icelancer »

nightpool wrote: post #53
dpcan wrote: post #49

I like it. And I always wondered why a programming language couldn't exist to work as follows: Start Run at 60 frames per second and do Clear the screen Draw a rectangle at (10,10) with size (100,50) and rotate it 20 degrees Repeat End Or something along those lines - hopefully you get my point. This would be fun for prototyping. I could just speak to my computer and have it translate my plain english into a working…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_programming Plenty of things already work like this. For example, check out Inform 7 http://inform7.com/ or the Robot C natural language module http://www.robotc.net/NaturalLanguage/ . Or, more generally, LOGO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_%28programming_language%2...

LOGO was exactly what I thought of when I saw his post. 'pen up' and 'pen down' and so forth jive very well with "natural" language.
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