Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
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Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
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Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#2Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal notes/contacts/etc.
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#3Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language
https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#4I wonder what It would give with Nathan W Pyle's Alien.
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#5You made a programming language because you were bored? I'm not so studied. What tool do you use to make an interpreter?
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#6Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal notes/contacts/etc. [0] https://dotink.co/
Hilarious!
Nicely done.
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#7Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal notes/contacts/etc. [0] https://dotink.co/
This seems like a pretty large effort to commit to a joke. I applaud the effort, but I'm curious. What's your motivation?
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#8Hey HN! Author here, feel free to AMA. I've made less joke-y languages too before, most prominently Ink [0] which I use to write some of my own apps for personal notes/contacts/etc. [0] https://dotink.co/
This seems like a pretty large effort to commit to a joke. I applaud the effort, but I'm curious. What's your motivation?
I've implemented a few small toy languages before and Tabloid was intentionally sort of sketched out to be similar (expression-based grammars, whitespace-insensitive, recursive, etc.) so it was just mostly a matter of reimplementing those things with slight variations (the biggest being that entire phrases could be keywords). Doing so in JS made prototyping pretty fast.
I guess besides the fun of just the comedy of the idea I wanted to get back into JS (I haven't written JS in a while) and wanted a project I could fit into one night, so I sort of swizzled the language design so it wasn't super complex and doable in a few hours.
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#9It's cute, but a real language needs a lambda operator. I propose ONE WEIRD TRICK.
Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language
#10It's cute, but a real language needs a lambda operator. I propose ONE WEIRD TRICK.
This is actually so good I might implement it when I get time later. It just makes sense.