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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Someone is trying to re-create the virus from Snow Crash

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

The opening lines were prophetic:

"... When it gets down to it–we're talking trade balances here–once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwaves in Tadzhikistan and selling them here–once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel–once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani bricklayer would consider to be prosperity–y'know what? There's only four things we do better than anyone else:

  • music
  • movies
  • microcode (software)
  • high-speed pizza delivery
[–] white_nrdy 2 points 2 months ago

Snow Crash was my exact first thought

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Thank you :)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

You need to use a language with powerful macros (like LISP) so you can avoid English entirely.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

This is glorious. I so need to try something silly like that at work...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

I interviewed someone once who had sublime set up to use emojis in place of keywords. The only one that made me actually chuckle more than groan was using the 💩 emoji for catch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Haskell will probably come with some of these predefined, what with ∀ already being an alias for "forall" and so on.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Thanks, I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Okok.. Does this make sense? And if so, how long did it take you to write this?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Which one of you is gonna trying translating this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that's how you summon actual demons

I know one extremely burnt out dude who would absolutely try it

[–] 0x0 1 points 2 months ago

Bob Howard from the Laundry will be with you shortly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

what language is that

it looks like an unholy fusion of Python and Rust

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago
[–] 0x0 1 points 2 months ago
[–] fool 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Feeling mischievous?

Python 3.12.6.
>>> 𒁎=3
>>> 𒁎**𒁎
27
#include <iostream>

int main() {
  int 𒇤 = 2;
  std::cout << (𒇤 + 𒇤) << std::endl;
  return 0;
}
$ ./a.out
4
touch 𒇤.java
nvim 𒇤.java
public class 𒇤 {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("LMAO");
  }
}
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

this doesn't hold a candle to APL:

sudoku←{⎕io←0       ⍝ Whitney/Last
    p←{(↑⍵)∘{(⍺∨.=⍵)/⍳n×n}¨,⍵},(n*÷2){⍵,⍺⊥⌊⍵÷⍺}¨⍳n n←⍴⍵
    m←{(⊂⍵)⌈(⊂⍺=⍳⍴⍵)×(1+⍳n)~⍵[⍺⊃p]}
    (⍴⍵)∘⍴¨⊃{⊃,/⍺ m¨⍵}/{(⍸⍵=0),⊂⊂⍵},⍵
}
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The difference is that the above Sumerian could be dealt with using find and replace in a dire situation, while APL is a write-only language.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I dunno, there's probably less than ten people who can actually speak Sumerian, and there's at least a dozen people who can read APL.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
> keywords still written in English
bruh.wav
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

One big problem is font size. Smaller features of many scripts like CJK are barely visible, and this example shows the same problem.