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Re: Dogescript

#114

Many of these internet memes are genius hilarious. People know the good Monty Python bits 40 years on. The good doge pics bust my guts just like that stuff. Will anyone get or remember this in 20 years? Interesting times.

All your base is still funny 20 years later!

That can't be 20 years old yet can it? I loved how AYBIBTU was used to torment many talk shows, like Love Line and Tom Green. Good times.

Re: Dogescript

#116
post #70

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I would like to make an addendum to Poe's Law - a formal accepted response / solution to the dilemma. An extremist point of view should always be taken as sarcasm (or more accurately, as pisstake). Extremism should be derided as facile and ridiculous, but kind of funny - just like sarcasm. It is absurd whether the proponent regards it as such or not and as such should be treated with the sense of humour it deserves.

"Extremist" points of view are relative to the audience. At one point, scientists were 'extremists.'

And generalities are relative to the generalist.

Re: Dogescript

#118
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…

Great, then all you will need is a human to translate your other contexts you're not sharing with the computer via your voice to an actual programming language.

Re: Dogescript

#119
post #48

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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 ?

Is that a Pratchett reference?

Re: Dogescript

#120
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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…

Things stop being funny over time. There's no reason to be concerned. There will always be a next funny thing, and there's really very little you can do about it.

I'm not concerned. This was my response to the claim that it is "very much in the hacker spirit". I find it neither utile nor humorous. I think compiling it to Javascript is trivial and not worth our attention.
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