The Shakespeare Programming Language

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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snort

[wrinkledshirt]

combines the best features of BASIC, assembly language, and Hamlet.

Let me guess. It takes three long, boring hours to figure out (2b | !2b)?

oh well

[banky]

Server, server, whereforeart thou, server?
Deny thy slashdotting and accept mine HTTP connects!

5 comments and I can't seem to connect. mayhap I shall bite my thumb at RoadRunner?

The true meaning of Shakespeare

[aoihai]

Thus it is revealed that "Much Ado About Nothing" is actually a polynomial time solver of the "Love Triangle" subclass of NP-complete problems.

Re:The true meaning of Shakespeare

[jovlinger]

fscking genius! Bravo, my good man.

Following your lead, I have deduced that Othello must be a game-theoretic treatsie, while the Comedy of Errors is clearly a C compiler.

I suspect that All's Well that Ends Well must be an early formulation of the halting problem, but I'm still waiting for the mechanical proof solver to come back with results. It may be that the last word of the title is a transcription error.

A great new step

[einhverfr]

On April 1, 2000, an RFC was released on IMPS, the Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite, which is a means of keeping track of an infinite number of monkeys on an infinite number of typewriters to see if they duplicate the works of Shakespear (or any other works for that matter). The RFC is located at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2795.txt.

RFC 2795 specified that the entity which stores the works of Shakespear (and everyone else) is the Big Annex of Reference Documents (BARD) and communicates with the ZOO (Zone Operation Organization) vie the InterAnnex Message Broadcasting Protocol for Evaluating Neo-classical Transcripts (IAMB-PENT).

Anyway, my point is that this new language is great because what other language would you want to write an implimentation of IAMB-PENT in than Shakespear? Soon we will have another Linux groups try to demonstrate this important protocol like they did with RFC 1149!

Any CSS descrambling software in Shakespeare?

[Mark Gordon]

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.

Amazing...

[Anonymous Coward]

"Amazing what CompSci-students can create when they really should do real work."

Like Linux?

Cook me up some Hamlet

[sparcv9]

Another natural language language is Chef. Programs are written like cooking recipies. The above link has examples of a Hello World and a Fibonacci sequence generator. I wouldn't want to eat either of them, though. The ingredients are the variable names, so some of the concoctions sound downright nasty. Although, the Fibonacci generator only requires 100g flour, 250 g butter, and one egg, and it's accompanying Caramel Sauce (the recursive function) requires a cup of white sigar, a cup of brown sugar, and a single vanilla bean.

Re:Shakespeare is a good start. Now let's try othe

[Anonymous Coward]

fuck that. ebonic would be a much better programming language.

int foo()
{
word up, biatch;

homey = sup();

}

Temporary mirror

[jooon]

We didn't expect the slashdot effect (well, not so soon anyway ;-), and our WikiWiki certainly didn't, so the web server died. So, we set up some temporary, but not complete mirrors. The source, documentation and examples are here, but it lacks the lively and lovely Wiki discussion.

http://spl.pu240.com

http://cgi.student.nada.kth.se/~d98-jas/shakespear e/

--
Jon Åslund (one of the authors)

Re:why not code in Grunting Neanderthal?

[majcher]

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