On a light semi-PL note... One possible application or inspiration for
the Rockstar language mentioned in this issue of Racket News
("https://github.com/whichxjy/rockstar-rkt";), is for what could be
called a thought exercise (among other things), like in the second
paragraph of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS#Legal_response
(Note the three-leet "1337" reference in examples on
"codewithrockstar.com", which had a lot of cultural overlap with things
like DeCSS, at the time.)
If anyone wants to play around with ideas like this, in addition to this
#lang, I'd suggest also quickly taking a look at the DeCSS haiku (which
might also rate a #lang haiku), and maybe various old Perl languages (I
recall people were playing with things like programming in Latin, when
Perl introduced a feature somewhat like #lang).
You could also see how much of one of these languages you can implement
mainly as Racket Honu grammar specification.
You could also try to map out the space of such languages, maybe
including concepts like syntax translation, obfuscation, steganography,
ciphers, semantics translation, riddles, other linguistics concepts,
visualization, and even allegory. Then, who can generate a language
(human, machine, writer, designer, artist), who recognize it, who can
interpret it (human, machine, AI-hard, and/or requires cautious literary
critical theory), how reliably, is it ambiguous/lossy, what other
information is required, etc. Can DeCSS be expressed in a convincing
style of Shakespeare or Kafka, by whom, and then who could interpret it
as correct algorithm?
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