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Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

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Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

#21

Hey 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/

nice stuff. fyi, You've doubled up the line `BEATS / SMALLER THAN` under "how much is there".

Nice catch! Thanks. I'll toss that in my todos :)

Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

#22

Hey 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/

"Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by _cilckbait_ headlines."

I like the deliberate misspelling of "clickbait," it layers a spam email feel on top of the clickbait ethos. Bravo!

Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

#23
post #12

I suggest "10 EASY STEPS FOR BETTER i" as for(i=0;i<10;i++).

10 [EASY|QUICK|WEIRD] STEPS = Range [list expr] FOR [variable name] = map operator

Would be nice to fit "NUMBER X WILL SURPRISE YOU" in there as a way to break out of the loop (`if (i == x) { break; }`), but I think that would require tracking the loop variable as context, which kinda sucks.

Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

#25

Hey 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/

Believe me, I've used absolutely EVERY LANGUAGE THERE IS. Imagine 4th Gen, dbs, procedural, OOP, blah blah blah. What REALLY MATTERS in the _Real World_ is TABLOID!

But WAIT, THERE's MORE! Before you delete all the other code and languages, first throw your computers and tablets away. TABLOID doesn't need any of that! TABLOID is Turing-Super-Complete!

Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

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post #12

I suggest "10 EASY STEPS FOR BETTER i" as for(i=0;i<10;i++).

or maybe "TOP 10 SECRETS 0 PERSON KNEW ABOUT"

This is a funny and shitty idea for a programming language while at the same time retaining something inspiring about it OTOH, really worth my time

Re: Tabloid: The Clickbait Headline Programming Language

#29

Brilliant! However: Ideally, someone would create a meta-language for defining the next ArnoldC/LolCat/Intercal/...Tabloid, assuming there will be a next, which I'm sure there is (nobody made a porn-based language yet, rule 33 or whatever number it was).

The configuration file should be a collection of hackernews headlines
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