Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language 102
An anonymous reader brings us Computerworld's interview with Don Woods, one of the creators of Compiler Language With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL). INTERCAL and its documentation were created in 1972 as a parody of that era's languages and instruction manuals. Among other things, Woods had this to say:
"We designed the language without too much trouble. Writing the manual took a while, especially for things like the circuit diagrams we included as nonsensical illustrations. The compiler itself actually wasn't too much trouble, given that we weren't at all concerned with optimising the performance of either the compiler or the compiled code. I admit I'm surprised at its longevity. Some of the jokes in the original work feel rather dated at this point. It helps that the language provides a place where people can discuss oddball features missing from other languages, such as the 'COME FROM' statement and operators that work in base 3."
Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Intercal has nothing on Brainfuck [wikipedia.org]. Brainfuck makes every other spoof programming language look like a joke. I'd write the Hello World! program here, but Slashdot's content filter doesn't support Brainfuck code.
Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
It's a language created on the Amiga in the 1980s, named after hypercard, but completely unrelated. The only legal characters are whitespace. Tab, space, linefeed, carriage return etc.
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft announces new language for the .NET platform, IronINTERCAL.
With all the features of regular INTERCAL, but only runs on Windows Vista (tm).
Miguel De Icaza had this to say about the exciting new development - "No Me Gusta." He's clearly speechless about this fabulous new language available only on Windows Vista (tm).
LOLCODE (Score:4, Funny)
LOLCODE [lolcode.com] might actually get this brain-damaged BASIC refugee trying their hand at programming again after all these years.
I wish I could remember .... (Score:2, Funny)
Back in the 1970s somebody told me about an operating system. I can only remember a couple of statements:
KILL SUPERVISOR
JUMP SECRETARY
Re:Bah! (Score:3, Funny)
Intercal has nothing on Brainfuck [wikipedia.org]. Brainfuck makes every other spoof programming language look like a joke.
Not sure whether that was intentionally humourous or not, but well done, nonetheless.
But seriously[*] kids, nothing holds a candle to ACME [cpan.org]. All the programming foolishness you'll ever need, implemented in glorious Perl!
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[*] Whatever....
Better spoof languages (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
A crucial feature of this mock-sports extravaganza will be on-the-fly and occasionally randomized rules generation.
Lead developer Q. Wolfgang Imboodaga denied vehemently the accusation that this is really a DARPA project to write a US Congress simulator.
it's apparently amateur night (Score:5, Funny)
Oh please.
Has noone here ever used perl? :)
Re:LOLCODE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:LOLCODE (Score:2, Funny)
duh, man, that's like, the whole... point, or whatever, man.
Proof that otherwise intelligent people, in groups, become absolute fucktards.
Turn over the Google Source Code to Viacom in INTE (Score:5, Funny)
The Apple Version (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
I would post "Hello World" written in it here, but the comment thingy refused to accept it: "Filter error: Please use less whitespace."
tm
Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
Your suggestion is laughable. There is only one acceptable answer [wikipedia.org].
Woah! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! Researching these esoteric programming languages has been more than a brainfuck [esolangs.org] - it is positively a brainfuck++ [esolangs.org]. Nay, I'm sure just reading of them is causing an irreversible [esolangs.org] loss of knowledge of real programming languages - that must surely qualify as a quantum brainfuck [esolangs.org] whereby both cannot be fully comprehended [esolangs.org] at the same time.
Man, now I really feel like a dumbf*ck [esolangs.org]! Fuck, Fuck! [esolangs.org] Double fuck! [esolangs.org]
The bad news is that my pointy [esolangs.org] haired boss [esolangs.org] has ordered that all development switch to his new favorite language [esolangs.org]. I think he may have been smoking something [esolangs.org].
This is bad for me because he has now had to ask me to go ahead and come in on Saturday. This means I will have to cancel my date, who has real come hither [esolangs.org] eyes, and I was so confident it was going to be a real beneficial [esolangs.org][0] night[1].
Argh! [esolangs.org]
I wish I could get all my ducks in a row [esolangs.org] so I could give him a swift kick with my size nines [esolangs.org] so he walks funny [esolangs.org] for a week, flick him the V [esolangs.org] and leave this crummy company; that would rock [esolangs.org]!
[0] High five!
[1] Unlike the last one, on which the lady gave me an unexpected present [esolangs.org].
Re:I wish I could remember .... (Score:4, Funny)
New Day
Read Newspaper
Job Sucks
Kill Supervisor
Open Fly
Do Secretary
Close Door
Go Home
Re:LOLCODE (Score:5, Funny)
u is in our threadz
missin teh point
Re:Converted (Score:1, Funny)
Um, which program are you talking about? If you're referring to the X11 program Ghostview, then you should be using gv, in which you can access other pages by the not-at-all-obscure non-command-line approach of clicking on the "next page" button. If you're referring to the Windows program GSview, on the other hand, then it's slightly harder: you access other pages by clicking on the "next page" button.
Um, in other words, what the fuck are you smoking?
Re:Bah! (Score:3, Funny)
Is there no end to his evil meddling
Re:A widely accepted use of COME FROM (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Bah! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Bah! (Score:5, Funny)
The language you refer to is whitespace, as described and linked in a comment below as well.
I would post "Hello World" written in it here, but the comment thingy refused to accept it: "Filter error: Please use less whitespace."
So those Perl bigots at Slashdot are finally actively excluding other programming languages by name.