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The Groot Programming Language

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Re: The Groot Programming Language

#3
I propose a law of esoteric langauges:

If there exists, in popular culture, a character with a comically limited vocabulary (e.g. Groot, The Librarian in Discworld) then there shall be a Brainfuck variant based on its vocabulary. (In our example, Grootlang and Ook)

Re: The Groot Programming Language

#7
Even though I got a laugh out of it, I propose we change the definition of esoteric programming languages to require more creativity from their designer than reimplementing brainfuck with different tokens for the operators.

Re: The Groot Programming Language

#8
I've never really understood why Groot stopped being able to say more than his name - he could talk just fine until 2008 or so:

http://13thdimension.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/acstarlo...

(On the other hand, the fully-talking character was a bit of a jerk, so perhaps it's better this way.)

Re: The Groot Programming Language

#10
post #7

Even though I got a laugh out of it, I propose we change the definition of esoteric programming languages to require more creativity from their designer than reimplementing brainfuck with different tokens for the operators.

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