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A Warrior's Programming Language

Posted by Hemos on from the dear-lord dept.

BlackNova writes "Var'aq is "a speculative glance at what a programming language on a Klingon computer system would look like." Make sure to read the Preliminary Specification and the Proposed Extensions."

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  1. Hmm all out already by McLaLa · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Did anyone in the nanosecond that this geocities site actually had free bandwidth actually manage to get a mirror of the page?


    <grumble>
    I suppose it would be possible for editors to realise geocities sites don't go well on the front page
    </grumble>

  2. Slashdotted already... by arbitrary+nickname · · Score: 1, Insightful


    And after only 18 comments..... linking to a Geocities site from Slashdot is a bit stupid....

  3. Interesting premise, but... by Kieckerjan · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The premise underlying this project is interesting: will different cultures create different programming languages? It's a popular idea that natural language and culture are very much intertwined. (Think 20 eskimo words for snow here.) However, a natural language is used to actually do things that make up culture. One wonders if the same goes for a programming language: the language will probably not as much influence a culture as the other way around.

    Another way to look at a language is as an expression of certain believes. This seems to fit the bill better. Will, for instance, a programmer with anarchistical tendencies prefer a language like Perl?

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    Being well balanced is overrated. -- John Carmack
  4. On Geekdom by Astral+Jung · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure, I could make the well-used comment that as if learning Klingon wasn't quite geeky enough...

    But I won't. Instead, I will remind people that those who laugh at, say, a Klingon computer language, and then, go back to work on making Linux work on their Atari 2600, ought to reconsider their opinion.

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    "What's so random about flipping a coin? Ever heard of the I Ching?"
  5. The impossibility of Klingons by Scareduck · · Score: 3, Insightful
    The one problem I have always had with the notion of the Klingon Empire as practiced on "Star Trek" is that they couldn't possibly exist in real life. The Klingons are basically at the level of space bikers, or the Taliban, that is, they're mainly interested in what they can squeeze out of situations at this moment using whatever violent methods are at hand now. Research? Pure science? These things make not a great warrior!

    The Federation would have had these guys for lunch in a heartbeat.

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    Dog is my co-pilot.

  6. Geocities's Business Model by daBass · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Let's create a website on which people can create their homepages and when people come to visit those homepages, we put OUR ads on them and make money that way"

    "The web site you are trying to access has exceeded its allocated data transfer."

    Anyone else missing something here? Or is it just me?

  7. editors of slashdot. by gimpboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    do you think it would be possible to post links to google cache in the main story? i'm sure the owners of the web sites would prefer it. what would it take to be a little more responsible and try to avoid squashing the little guys that provide your content? it must be nice to have so much bandwith that you loose perspective and forget that the rest of the world does not.

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    -- john