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The Shakespeare Programming Language

Posted by michael on from the civil-blood-makes-civil-hands-unclean dept.

Erik Tjernlund writes: "Oh, where art thou my lovely new programming language? Stop fiddling around with those perl magnets and use a real poetic computer language: The Shakespeare Programming Language. Not a compiler, but it converts to C. Cool 100+ line Hello World example. Amazing what CompSci-students can create when they really should do real work."

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  1. Any CSS descrambling software in Shakespeare? by Mark+Gordon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Assuming this isn't a complete joke...

    David Touretzky would probably get a kick out of this language, since it could lead to a dramatic rendition of a CSS descrambler.

  2. Re:why not code in Grunting Neanderthal? by majcher · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You must have missed Ook, a language designed for orangutangs.