The English Esoteric Programming Language
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The English Esoteric Programming Language
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Re: The English Esoteric Programming Language
#2I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
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#3I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".
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#4I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
Legalese is just obfuscated English
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#5I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
I think that's called poetry
Re: The English Esoteric Programming Language
#6I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month:
https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen
It is a terrible, terrible idea, but it does work. It uses GPT-4 to read Python docstrings and magically implement working functions from English descriptions.
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#8> This program writes "Hello World" (without quotes) to the output.
> This program outputs Hello World.
So that alternative doesn't quite work for writing "its own source" without quotes...
Re: The English Esoteric Programming Language
#9Lojban may be the only spoken language you could write a programming language in, a programmable spoken language... English, not so much due to its inherent limitations related to natural languages. :P