It's missing the essential keyword "We". I'd submit a patch but I'm too drunk right now.
The Groot Programming Language
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#12"Groot" is Dutch for big; until I followed the link, I was wondering if it were actually about C++. (OTOH, that would be "grootste", wouldn't it?)
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#13Meh. Good effort, I guess.
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#15I 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)
Supporting evidence: https://github.com/mikar/hodor
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#16It doesn’t have generics.
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#17Someone needs to (not me, I'm an idiot) a VM to run it on called "Diesel".
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#18Even 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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#19It's missing the essential keyword "We". I'd submit a patch but I'm too drunk right now.
The last line of the spec (or near it at least).