On Friday 08 June 2007 15:14, Jim Cheetham wrote: > On 08/06/07, Ben Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Based on the premise* that most kids (in the UK at least) have trouble > > reading and writing when they leave school, we should all try and > > contribute to the lolcode.com effort and make this a viable language. > > Then all the 'young uns' could code in a subset of their native tongue: > > txt lnguge. > > > :-) LOLcode is fun, and tremendously polite. Unfortunately all it really > > provides is syntatic sugar over the top of some other language (currently > underspecified, but untyped). > > The really fun languages are things like Befunge and Malbolge.
The ultimate test of geekhood is surely roundtripping a program from Intercal to Malbolge. Through a PL/I intermediate language, of course, and also producing a COBOL text in EBCDIC as documentation and z900 TEXT for people that way inclined! ;) -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
