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New NSA-Funded Code Rolls All Programming Languages Into One

Posted by timothy on from the so-your-program-can-confuse-itself dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What's your favorite programming language? Is it CSS? Is it JavaScript? Is it PHP, HTML5, or something else? Why choose? A new programming language developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University is all of those and more — one of the world's first "polyglot" programming languages. Sound cool? It is, except its development is partially funded by the National Security Agency, so let's look at it with a skeptical eye. It's called Wyvern — named after a mythical dragon-like thing that only has two legs instead of four — and it's supposed to help programmers design apps and websites without having to rely on a whole bunch of different stylesheets and different amalgamations spread across different files.

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  1. CSS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "What's your favorite programming language? Is it CSS?"

    Why yes, I just love writing VoIP systems in CSS.

  2. You have n programming languages... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You have n programming languages. You think "That's to many, let's invent a programming language that combines all of them!", and then do so. You now have n+1 programming languages...

  3. Re:Shit summary by binarylarry · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah and can you imagine the horrific shit sandwich that would be a combination of CSS, HTML5, PHP and JavaScript?

    666 Mark of the Techno Beast. It's like some shit Ghostbusters 2099 would be tasked with stopping.

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  4. FTFY by QilessQi · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Web applications today are written as a poorly-coordinated mishmash of artifacts written in different languages, file formats, and technologies.

    "...and here's another one!"

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