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Tired of Old Man Python telling you what you can and can't say to your computer?

75 points by mapleoin 17y ago

jff 17y ago
% fortune -m "VALGOL"
- IgorPartola 17y ago
  THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the "California booleans", AX and NOWAY. Loops are accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example: LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA =LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME!
jsharpe 17y ago
needs to be smart enough so you can write: print "hello world" or whatever or n = 3 'n shit
- pvg 17y ago
  also missing a fo' shizzle conditional and possibly loop construct.
  - froo 17y ago
    I'm wondering what happens when you mix various types... eg mixing a "fo' shizzle" with a "broheim" - would it return an error similar to trying to add a string to a int?
proemeth 17y ago
I expected an article on the limits of python syntax, but this is the description of some lolcode-style language.
- jrockway 17y ago
  O HAI. Any language that has the word "broseph" as a keyword is okay by me.
winter_blue 17y ago
Is he removing the 'Like, Python' keywords from the source and then passing it to the Python interpreter?
- PostOnce 17y ago
  Whoever downvoted you is retarded. Yours is a completely legitimate question to which I cannot give a certain answer, but I'd say it seems likely.
  - Semiapies 17y ago
    I hate when people downvote decent questions.
- vorador 17y ago
  Yes, it just does that.
Luyt 17y ago
I miss the hicks, mullets and rednecks ;-)
thamer 17y ago
See also: Eubonicode http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/prog.html http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/prog.html
philh 17y ago
Strictly speaking, for Python to actually be a subset, it needs to recognise when a keyword is meaningful. Like: hey = "hello world" print hey Can it do this? My assumption is not, because you'd get issues like so anyway just = "hello world" but you could make an exception for when there's only one of them.
nuba 17y ago
This is just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak sugar. I guess I'll stick with Scratch and Logo for my kid.

75 points by mapleoin 17y ago

jff 17y ago

% fortune -m "VALGOL"

IgorPartola 17y ago
THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #14 -- VALGOL VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y*KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the "California booleans", AX and NOWAY. Loops are accomplished with the FOR SURE construct. A simple example: LIKE, Y*KNOW(I MEAN)START IF PIZZA =LIKE BITCHEN AND GUY =LIKE TUBULAR AND VALLEY GIRL =LIKE GRODY**MAX(FERSURE)**2 THEN FOR I =LIKE 1 TO OH*MAYBE 100 DO*WAH - (DITTY**2); BARF(I)=TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) SURE LIKE, BAG THIS PROGRAM; REALLY; LIKE TOTALLY(Y*KNOW); IM*SURE GOTO THE MALL VALGOL is also characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message GAG ME WITH A SPOON! A successful compile may be termed MAXIMALLY AWESOME!

jsharpe 17y ago

needs to be smart enough so you can write: print "hello world" or whatever or n = 3 'n shit

pvg 17y ago
also missing a fo' shizzle conditional and possibly loop construct.
- froo 17y ago
  I'm wondering what happens when you mix various types... eg mixing a "fo' shizzle" with a "broheim" - would it return an error similar to trying to add a string to a int?

proemeth 17y ago

I expected an article on the limits of python syntax, but this is the description of some lolcode-style language.

jrockway 17y ago
O HAI. Any language that has the word "broseph" as a keyword is okay by me.

winter_blue 17y ago

Is he removing the 'Like, Python' keywords from the source and then passing it to the Python interpreter?

PostOnce 17y ago
Whoever downvoted you is retarded. Yours is a completely legitimate question to which I cannot give a certain answer, but I'd say it seems likely.
- Semiapies 17y ago
  I hate when people downvote decent questions.
vorador 17y ago
Yes, it just does that.

Luyt 17y ago

I miss the hicks, mullets and rednecks ;-)

thamer 17y ago

See also: Eubonicode http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/prog.html http://www.public.iastate.edu/~crb002/prog.html

philh 17y ago

Strictly speaking, for Python to actually be a subset, it needs to recognise when a keyword is meaningful. Like: hey = "hello world" print hey Can it do this? My assumption is not, because you'd get issues like so anyway just = "hello world" but you could make an exception for when there's only one of them.

nuba 17y ago

This is just http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valspeak sugar. I guess I'll stick with Scratch and Logo for my kid.