Semicolon: A language of semicolons • Hacker News Board

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by SagelyGuru » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:36 PM UTC

This Semicolon language bears more than a passing resemblance to POP-11, the famous AI programming language for popping things on/off a stack!

To this day POP-11 holds the unsurpassed distinction of being the language for writing the most useless programs in the most intriquing way (after machine code, of course).

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by hcarvalhoalves » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:44 PM UTC

I don't even know how to type an inversed semicolon.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by jack-r-abbit » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:44 PM UTC

and I'm expecting there should be a post about how this is still better than PHP in 5... 4... 3... 2...

:)

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by swasheck » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:45 PM UTC

gavinlynch wrote: post #19

Hi guys, just wanted to tag along with this thread, because I'm a huge fan of Semicolon! One thing I've always found aggravating though... Those darn semicolons! So I'm creating CoffeeColon, because all these semi-colons are such a hassle. It's probably easiest if I just show you the language in action, rather than going through a long diatribe. So here's my hello world!: " " ^ Pretty elegant, right? let's try someth…

Additionally, I've created a linter that I've named ColonCleaner. I think it'll be a real hit. Just relax and let it do its thing.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by dclowd9901 » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:47 PM UTC

My right pinky is gonna get so huge.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by rapind » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:49 PM UTC

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #33

and I'm expecting there should be a post about how this is still better than PHP in 5... 4... 3... 2... :)

This would only be better than PHP if it also had goto statements.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by mappu » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:54 PM UTC

There are lots of joke languages that are simply isomorphic to Brainfuck - Ook, Fuckfuck and so on - so congratulations on not just taking the easy way out (changing their eight keywords instantly gives you an interpreter, compiler, sample code, ...)

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by fbomb » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:56 PM UTC

So when will Objective-Semicolon and Semicolon.NET be available?

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by bobobjorn » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:58 PM UTC

rapind wrote: post #36

jack-r-abbit wrote: post #33

and I'm expecting there should be a post about how this is still better than PHP in 5... 4... 3... 2... :)

This would only be better than PHP if it also had goto statements.

it seems to have goto.

Re: Semicolon: A language of semicolons

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Post by PaulHoule » Tue, Apr 17, 2012, 7:58 PM UTC

that's just too much like Python to be funny