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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. oh well by banky · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  2. The true meaning of Shakespeare by aoihai · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. 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.

  4. Amazing... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Like Linux?

  5. Cook me up some Hamlet by sparcv9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Shakespeare is a good start. Now let's try othe by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    int foo()
    {
    word up, biatch;

    homey = sup();

    }

  7. Temporary mirror by jooon · · Score: 5, Informative

    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/

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    Jon Åslund (one of the authors)