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OneAndOneIs2

Fri, Jun 08, 2007

[Link][Icon]Well, I suppose coding IS just weird English...

A convergence waiting to happen?

Most programming languages use English words in a roughly-sensible order, after all:

if (apple)
    eat(apple--);
else
    apple = 1;

This is clearly understandable as "If you have an apple, eat the apple. Otherwise, get an apple", and the observant will note that implicit in the fact that you eat the apple is the fact that you're going to have one less apple..

So when you have something like lolcats which puts similarly fractured-yet-logical English into its captions, is it any wonder that somebody decided to make a programming language out of it?

I'll put it on my list of languages to learn, right after C and Python are out of the way.

In the meantime, here are some of the lolcats I rather liked:

[lolcat]

[lolcat]

[lolcat]

[lolcat]

[lolcat]

[lolcat]

[lolcat]

5 comments • Categories: Omni, FOSS, Programming

Comments:

Comment from: hari [Member] Email · http://hari.literaryforums.org
The pictures are nice, but somehow seeing 'ur' being used really annoys me.

Nothing annoys me in text message speak more than this 'ur'. :-p
PermalinkPermalink 08/06/07 @ 17:02
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
What about people typing "your" when they mean "u r"? ;o)
PermalinkPermalink 08/06/07 @ 19:49
Comment from: John G [Visitor] Email
We has spoken this way in the southern US since Creation put us heah.
PermalinkPermalink 08/06/07 @ 20:08
Comment from: alison [Member] · http://www.creativehedghog.com
:) yay cute! you've ruined my study timetable now, you realize...
PermalinkPermalink 11/06/07 @ 13:36
Comment from: oneandoneis2 [Member] · http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/
Nah I haven't, it only takes a couple hours to go through the complete archive ;o)
PermalinkPermalink 11/06/07 @ 16:42

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