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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. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  2. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  4. My Mistress' Eye's are nothing like the Sun by Kiss+the+Blade · · Score: -1, Troll
    Shakespeare, whilst regarded as a wonderful dramatist, is really suffering from a fading reputation. While he is adored by schoolmarms in the midwest, and held as an icon by people who know little of literature, for this observer, at least, "All that lives must die, passing through nature to eternity" Hamlet, Act i, Sc.2

    Shakespeare has really had his day. His insights don't hold water in the modern world, though they did apply well in Tudor times, when the populace was irrational and extremely religious. These days, however, we have seen the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and much more. Shakespeare's 400 year old commentary has little to appeal to the modern sensibility. For a more contemporary attitude, I suggest Marlowe, a new literary star who has arisen from the East End slums of London.

    "Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field", quoth Shakespeare in Romeo & Juliet, but really, nowadays the death lies on him.

    It may be controversial to suggest that Shakespeare is only liked by unthinking fools and media moguls these days, but I am afraid that if you want challengin ideas, you must look elsewhere.

    They really should have chosen to make a Marlowe programming language. Then I'd have been far more impressed.

    --

    KTB:Lover, Poet, Artiste, Aesthete, Programmer.
    There is no

  5. Small sample by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    These guys wrote a neat little script in Shakespeare that tells your your domain name, IP, and routes three IGMP packets to your machine - one direct, one using only RIP, and the other using only OSPF. Of course, RIP fails but it would work on a local network. It also lists running tasks if you're using W2k. Check out the soruce or d/l the program here. Cool stuff.

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