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Re:Honorable Mention by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2018-01-01 02:29 · Score: 1 · on Which Programming Languages Are Most Prone to Bugs? (i-programmer.info)

Interestingly...

Seems very similar in concept to Rail by KeithIrwin · 2017-08-13 13:50 · Score: 1 · on New 'Asciidots' Programming Language Uses Ascii Art (And Python) (github.com)

It's more compact, but the control flow seems very much like Rail.

Re:They took the worst part of Python by JustAnotherOldGuy · 2017-01-21 10:22 · Score: 1 · on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com)

Like I said, this is rarely a problem in practice.

In some languages it never happens at all, ever, which frankly seems like a good thing to me.

And why should it- it's called "whitepace" for a reason, and that generally means it shouldn't matter. Why should a missing (or extra) space crash your program?

If you like whitespace so much, why not program in it?

Whitespace: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Whitespace

Unispace: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Unispace

Re:They took the worst part of Python by JustAnotherOldGuy · 2017-01-21 10:22 · Score: 1 · on New Release Of Nim Borrows From Python, Rust, Go, and Lisp (fossbytes.com)

Like I said, this is rarely a problem in practice.

In some languages it never happens at all, ever, which frankly seems like a good thing to me.

And why should it- it's called "whitepace" for a reason, and that generally means it shouldn't matter. Why should a missing (or extra) space crash your program?

If you like whitespace so much, why not program in it?

Whitespace: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Whitespace

Unispace: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Unispace

Re:Biometric Analysis is Inadequate by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2016-05-22 20:33 · Score: 1 · on Code Quality Predicted Using Biometrics (vice.com)

Cows say moo. MOOOO! MOOOO! Moo cows MOOOO! Moo say the cows.

1:1: Syntax error near 'Cows'

Re:This is Java code by Anonymous Coward · 2014-10-04 03:49 · Score: 0 · on Possible Reason Behind Version Hop to Windows 10: Compatibility

The code is less readable if you test for internal version numbers such as 4.00 or 4.10 instead of strings like "Windows 95" or "Windows 98" which everyone is familiar with.

I think you should stop using esoteric programming languages that don't support comments.

Even BrainF**k and WhiteSpace support comments - as long as you don't include punctuation or spaces...

No problem by PPH · 2014-06-12 03:50 · Score: 2 · on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages

Some of our best CS minds are already working on it.

Re:There is no language superiority by Kielistic · 2014-01-06 11:18 · Score: 1 · on "Clinical Trials" For Programming Languages?

Counterpoint A.

Brainfuck was designed for a reason seems to have been quite successful at it.

Re:Thank goodness by Mathinker · 2013-11-15 08:30 · Score: 1 · on Red Hat Releases Ceylon Language 1.0.0

Last time I checked, it's possible to write spaghetti code in any language. Of course, there are some languages in which it is impossible to write anything _but_ spaghetti code, but he wasn't talking about them.

Re:AutoMan: language for programming with people by neminem · 2012-08-01 03:21 · Score: 1 · on Managing Human Workers With an Algorithm

Sounds like a slightly un-sillified reincarnation of my favorite esoteric language, IRP?

Re:No by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-19 03:48 · Score: 1 · on JavaScript For the Rest of Us

Too late.

Re:I love lolcode by obsess5 · 2012-03-07 05:21 · Score: 1 · on New Programming Languages Come From Designers

I discovered this language some years ago. If I remember correctly, the language was developed after a late-night drinking binge. There are some languages that use MIDI music files as their source code; e.g., Velato.

Re:I have a shorter Tetris implementation by Anonymous Coward · 2012-02-19 06:25 · Score: 0 · on Tetris In 140 Bytes

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It works on my custom programming interpreter that uses '.' as the Tetris function.

See also: HQ9+

Re:The plural of anecdote by anonymov · 2011-10-08 06:54 · Score: 1 · on The Games Programmers Play

It's not about "simulating workflows", it's really a distributed parallel 2D programming language in a pretty graphical wrapper.

So, technically, it's part about part about proper thread synchronization avoiding deadlocks, race conditions and resource starvation, part about distributing workload between processes for optimal throughput and the puzzle part about laying out the algorithm in a limited program memory.

I hate when my brain's idling, so when I'm out of intersting problems at work, I really love to compensate with puzzles like this in spare time.

That said, it doesn't mean those are only games I play, "just log in and blow shit up" is a separate need.

Re:Perl by Anonymous Coward · 2010-12-24 11:28 · Score: 0 · on 23 Years of Culture Hacking With Perl

No, Malbolge would be a better fit for that. To wit:

The first "Hello, world!" program written in it was produced by a Lisp program using a local beam search of the space of all possible programs.

Re:Locking is a good thing by MrEricSir · 2010-11-09 12:32 · Score: 1 · on T-Mobile G2 'Permaroot' Achieved

Great! And we can program it in Intolerant.

Re:Variety by Anonymous Coward · 2010-03-10 02:41 · Score: 0 · on The Value of BASIC As a First Programming Language

I can't possibly agree with this more than I do. Day to day, I code in Ruby now and -- despite some 'flaws' in the language -- I love it. It's fast to code in, flows well and I can get the ideas in my head expressed decently. That being said, I have coded in quite a few languages for fun and to see how they work and how well I work with them. I love esotoric languages and in their oddness, they have taught me new ways of thinking sometimes, often as a surprise to me. (My favorite by the way: Rail -- just a fun language to play with.) I've done C, C++, Java, but they never give me the thrill of using something like Lua, tcl, Pike, and various other lesser-known languages. If I didn't go out and explore and look for new (to me) languages, I doubt I'd be any good at what I do or have nearly as much fun doing it. All of the nitty-gritty details of CS and languages aside, it's fun to see how other people have come up with giving the same instructions to a computer; it's all machine-code in the background afterall.

Re:Is it just me ? by ais523 · 2009-11-25 10:44 · Score: 1 · on Haskell 2010 Announced

Look up concatenative languages, such as Joy (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html); I wrote Underload (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Underload) as a sort of minimal expression of the same idea. Both of those languages effectively allow you to create arbitrary first-class functions despite having no form of function literal, and no concept of a closure, and work fine without garbage collection. However, doing things that way you have to do things differently from more standard functional programming languages.

Re:klingon? by Nazlfrag · 2009-05-18 17:39 · Score: 1 · on Sophos Releases Klingon Language Version

No, you're thinking of Var'aq.

Re:Examples are not nerdy by Andr+T. · 2008-11-19 03:39 · Score: 1 · on American Nerd

It was far more nerdy to brag about how you programmed your computer or calculator to compute Pi to the 100th decimal place.

Or, you could have programmed your computer or calculator with the Pi language, which would be even more nerdy.

Esoteric Languages by fxkr · 2008-09-17 18:33 · Score: 1 · on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language?

For esoteric languages, see: http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

BF Instruction Minimalization by fxkr · 2008-09-17 18:31 · Score: 1 · on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language?

You might want to take a look at this.

Re:brainfuck? by HeroreV · 2008-07-11 13:59 · Score: 1 · on How To Show Code Samples?

Any good programmer attempting to translate a large program into Brainfuck would not try to do it manually. There are already programs which can translate various languages into Brainfuck (1 2 3 4). It should be feasible to target one of those languages.

Re:brainfuck? by HeroreV · 2008-07-11 13:59 · Score: 1 · on How To Show Code Samples?

Any good programmer attempting to translate a large program into Brainfuck would not try to do it manually. There are already programs which can translate various languages into Brainfuck (1 2 3 4). It should be feasible to target one of those languages.

Woah! by Zwicky · 2008-07-04 15:44 · Score: 5, Funny · on Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language

Wow! Researching these esoteric programming languages has been more than a brainfuck - it is positively a brainfuck++. Nay, I'm sure just reading of them is causing an irreversible loss of knowledge of real programming languages - that must surely qualify as a quantum brainfuck whereby both cannot be fully comprehended at the same time.

Man, now I really feel like a dumbf*ck! Fuck, Fuck! Double fuck!

The bad news is that my pointy haired boss has ordered that all development switch to his new favorite language. I think he may have been smoking something.

This is bad for me because he has now had to ask me to go ahead and come in on Saturday. This means I will have to cancel my date, who has real come hither eyes, and I was so confident it was going to be a real beneficial[0] night[1].

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