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Rockstar: a language for programs that are also hair metal power ballads

341 points by skanderbm 5y ago

pluc 5y ago
> The keywords it, he, she, him, her, they, them, ze, hir, zie, zir, xe, xem, ve, and ver refer to the last named variable determined by parsing order. that was funny. let's have more social constructs in programming languages!
- tzs 5y ago
  I've actually seriously suggested that we make pronouns like that for English. The conventional system with just "he" and "she" and "it" is clearly inadequate because it doesn't handle the case where you have more than one noun that should have the same pronoun. That's a very easy case to hit. We are essentially using a 1.58-bit hash function to map nouns to pronouns, which has very poor collision resistance and it is a somewhat subjective hash function when dealing with anything whose gender you aren't sure of. We could add a bunch more pronouns to support more bits in the hash--that's what many people who consider themselves non-binary gendered are advocating. That can solve the problem of not having enough bits in the hash, but still leaves the problem of the hash function being subjective. In fact, it makes it more subjective because at least with "he" or "she" the default is to go by appearance unless you know that this is incorrect. With zie, zir, xem, and the rest everyone is a special case. Position based pronouns fix the hash problem by not using a hash, and fix the subjectivity problem by not being based on any characteristics of the noun to which they refer in a given sentence. Keep "he" and "she" with their current meaning for backward compatibility, and then add new pronouns that refer to the 1st noun in the sentence, the 2nd noun in the sentence, and so on, and add a similar set that refer to the nouns in the previous sentence (and count as nouns for determining pronouns in the current sentence).
0x4d464d48 5y ago
Hehe, nice. \m/
motohagiography 5y ago
Awe inspiring. I recorded a song where the lyrics were a parsable brainfuck program after wondering if a) daftpunk's higher bigger faster was turing complete, and b) whether the same was true of never gonna give you up. For me it was substituting high concept for talent, but what else are you going to do in pandemic lockdown. Rockstar tho, this is next level.
- lewispollard 5y ago
  I'm sorry what? Can you explain all of those things??
deleted 5y ago
[deleted]
philipswood 5y ago
And then there's the "Enterprise" programming language: https://github.com/joaomilho/Enterprise https://github.com/joaomilho/Enterprise So that you can rockstar at night, Enterprise by day until someone offers you the blue/red pill.
pohl 5y ago
Check out this conference talk from December 2019 – "The Art of Code" – which culminates in a live performance of Fizzbuzz in Rockstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8
- evanchisholm 5y ago
  The art of code is such a good talk. I've watched it a few times and enjoy it every single time.
- montebicyclelo 5y ago
  (this (very enjoyable) talk is by the author of the linked web site)
- cs702 5y ago
  Anyway, so I'm watching the hugely entertaining video to which you linked, only to find that a comment I made about Rockstar on HN a long while ago is on the video: https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3226 https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3226 -- totally unexpected. Brought a smile to my face. Thank you for sharing!
- technobabbler 5y ago
  The actual performance starts at 57:46 (https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3466 https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3466) and ends in a higher plane of existence.
- BbzzbB 5y ago
  I've just finished listening to that great talk before I searched HN to check up on the original share, surprised to see such a recent repost! I don't recall laughing out loud so often at a dev talk while it also showed some amazing snippets of, well, the art of code. If someone has other talks of this nature to recommend (and is lost in this 7d+ post), I'm all ears.
syvon 5y ago
This reminds me of https://shakespearelang.com/ https://shakespearelang.com/
gordaco 5y ago
Nice to see people rediscovering this language from time to time. I wrote an interpreter for an early version several years ago, just for fun. Possibly my favourite esoteric language. I particularly love the philosophy of "if you write even a single line of Rockstar, then you can consider yourself a full-fledged Rockstar programmer" (I'm paraphrasing, but I remember something like that in some official documentation).
obesacantavit 5y ago
Lol
- qart 5y ago
  That would be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
Taywee 5y ago
How long before Take-Two Interactive sues for trademark? https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interactive%20Software,%20Inc.%20%20 https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interact...
- seanw444 5y ago
  Holy cow...
- gbraad 5y ago
  Immediately had the same thought.
- kube-system 5y ago
  The only registered marks for the mark “ROCKSTAR” I see in TESS for Take-Two are in the clothing and apparel industry. So if anything, it’s the T Shirts that are the problem.
gfalcao 5y ago
I have not laughed to genuinely hard in a LONG LONG time, everything about this programming language rocks! (yes I did it)
hu3 5y ago
This is how Advent of Code day 7 solution looks like in Rockstar [1]: My plaything is your mind Cast my plaything into the void Listen to my heart Shatter my heart with the void Natsuki is frightened Yuri is gentleness Poems are invaluable Rock reality While my heart isn't mysterious Roll my heart into the world Burn the world into my hope If my hope is less than Natsuki Let Natsuki be my hope If my hope is greater than Yuri Let Yuri be my hope Let Sayori be reality at my hope If Sayori is mysterious Sayori is hereabouts Build Sayori up Let reality at my hope be Sayori Build poems up My end is justifying My thoughts are knowledgable Let the volume be poems over my thoughts My hope is accessible Turn down the volume Build Yuri up While my hope is less than Yuri Let my target be reality at my hope If my target is not mysterious Let the volume be the volume without my target If my end is nothing If the volume is less than my end Let my end be my hope Build my hope up My hope is accessible My passion is literature My heart is courageous Knock my heart down While my hope is less than Yuri Let my poem be reality at my hope If my poem is not mysterious Let my fear be my end without my hope If my fear is as weak as my heart Let my fear be my fear of my heart Let my fear be my fear of my poem Let my passion be my passion with my fear Build my hope up Shout my passion [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_day_7_solutions/hnkbroh https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_d...
- dane-pgp 5y ago
  That's good, but I was expecting it to contain a wheel rotating in six dimensions, forty gears and a ticking clock.
  - selimthegrim 5y ago
    Ezekiel was away on other business.
amildie 5y ago
Thanks, OP, I can finally become that 'Rockstar Developer' that companies are always looking for.
- ethbr0 5y ago
  https://codewithrockstar.com/swag https://codewithrockstar.com/swag Also, Def Leppard is still releasing albums? impressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard_(album) (also, cool to have your 11th studio album be your eponymous one)
  - saghm 5y ago
    Dream Theater did the same thing for their twelfth album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater_(album) Maybe naming things is also one of the hardest problems in rock 'n roll?
  - rob74 5y ago
    You wouldn't believe how many bands from the eighties/nineties are still around - out of the spotlight, some of them not with the original lineup, but still there for their faithful fans. Except for R.E.M. unfortunately, who disbanded in 2011...
    - ethbr0 5y ago
      R.E.M. always walked their own path. Said as someone born and raised in Athens. ;-) I had the luck to be at their induction into the GA Music Hall of Fame, by none other than Max Cleland. https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/group-award-presented-by-former-sen-max-cleland-to-r-e-m-news-photo/117414988 https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/group-award-pre...
  - BeFlatXIII 5y ago
    Even though I’m always in evil mode when in eMacs, I still want that Vim Hater logo.
- 5y ago
leodriesch 5y ago
While it is probably not a very good idea to use this to code, it reminds me of something DHH once said about Ruby. I don’t have the quote, but he said that he just loves the language because it is so fun to write for him, despite it not being the optimal language. And this alone makes him get into flow much more easily and therefore be more productive. This alone has made me gain interest in learning Ruby. It might be slower than lots of languages out there, but backend computing power is often not the main bottleneck in your stack. Developer velocity is probably much more important when it comes to producing great software and moving fast.
- exdsq 5y ago
  There are cool tools to be more efficient using factory workers such as https://github.com/contribsys/faktory_worker_ruby https://github.com/contribsys/faktory_worker_ruby I'm keen to pick up ruby too!
- setpatchaddress 5y ago
  Kind of a tangent, but Ruby-is-slow was always contextual. Ruby was always hugely faster than complex bash scripts for the same task. If you value launch time, Python (at least through 2.x) was always slower from a cold launch compared with Ruby.
- bcrosby95 5y ago
  This is how I look at vim. I don't think typing speed really matters for development. But I just find it so fun to see how much I can target exactly the chunk of code I want to change. It turns coding itself into a game.
krylon 5y ago
I was excited initially, but Hair Metal is an obvious no-go for me. Although it could be fun to do "reverse Perl poetry", and find Hard Rock / Hair Metal songs whose lyrics are valid Rockstar code. That way, we could finally find out what that one special song really means. \m/ (> <) \m/
- erik_seaberg 5y ago
  Pretty sure \m/ (> <) \m/ is the next Haskell infix operator beyond monads and arrows.
- kergonath 5y ago
  One band absolutely needs to do that.
- dylanbeattie 5y ago
  Hello. Dylan here. This is all my fault. :) The song that I think would compile with the fewest changes to the language spec is Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane". I don't think it'd reveal any hidden meaning or anything, though... it's really just a long list of assignment statements. You need to spell 'Night' on line 2 with a capital 'N'; same with 'What' on line 4, and some liberal use of parentheses, but the first four lines do actually compile: It's early morning, the sun comes out Last Night was shaking and pretty loud My cat is purring, it scratches my skin So What is wrong (with another sin)? The rest is, um, work in progress. And it may not be a coincidence that the stack push/pop operators in Rockstar are called "rock" and "roll", and the syntax was designed so that "rock you like a hurricane" is syntactically valid Rockstar code.
  - krylon 5y ago
    The songs would not have to do anything useful, the important point is that they are syntactically valid. Compare "Black Perl": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl (It was posted anonymously, but I remember reading somewhere Larry Wall has later admitted to being the author. Wikipedia claims authorship is still unclear, though.)
naltun 5y ago
The author of Rockstar gave a _fantastic_ presentation called The Art of Code, where he eventually introduces the language. I cannot praise the talk enough. It is available on YouTube.
ChrisArchitect 5y ago
(2019)
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
spikepuppet 5y ago
Hair Metal in the title had me interested, and this didn't disappoint. Thanks OP.
jamespwilliams 5y ago
> Tommy used to work on the docs. Nice
- jameshart 5y ago
  UnionBean.onStrike();
  - mixmastamyk 5y ago
    // He's down on his luck, it's tough…
    - mindcrime 5y ago
      /* Gina works the diner all day... */
- organman91 5y ago
  When I originally saw the talk this line killed me. Gotta be in my top ten favorite puns I've ever seen.
  - jgehrcke 5y ago
    Would you mind explaining? :-) I'm okay with potentially looking stupid here and ask for all of us who don't get this pun!
    - LeonM 5y ago
      It's the opening line in the lyrics of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer.
- airstrike 5y ago
  And the docs are littered with references... > Cut my life into pieces
DonHopkins 5y ago
Is there a Rockstar => Airline Food transpiler? https://esolangs.org/wiki/Airline_Food https://esolangs.org/wiki/Airline_Food >Airline Food is an esoteric programming language created by User:Largejamie in April 2021 whose programs are supposed to look like Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up. Factorial: Takes an input from the user and outputs its factorial You ever notice this? What's the deal with airline food? What's the deal with it? Right? So... Um, Just like it. Yeah, Not like this. Moving on... Um, See?
togaen 5y ago
Greatest thing I have ever seen.
rgrieselhuber 5y ago
I've always thought it would be cool if classical poetry turned out to be source code.
zanethomas 5y ago
haha, like for sure i wrote a valgol language interpreter in the early 80s
mixmastamyk 5y ago
Off to implement The Final Countdown…
anonymous_i 5y ago
Why is this blocked in India? "The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."
- tyingq 5y ago
  Here's a list of the possible offenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act,_2000#Offences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act,_20...
a9h74j 5y ago
Do heavy metal lyrics in other spoken languages use postfix? How does noun placement affect the poetics/performance of metal?
captn3m0 5y ago
Website is blocked in India because CloudFlare has a terrible ISP in India: https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/11 https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/... I wrote a thread on why this keeps happening and why CloudFlare needs to fix it: https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761 https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761
- dylanbeattie 5y ago
  I had no idea. Thanks for spotting this; I've flipped the site over to use CloudFlare Full/strict TLS; if that doesn't work I can turn off CloudFlare proxying completely.
sellerie 5y ago
Wow that sample code sounds 100% like DragonForce lyrics
singingfish 5y ago
is there a Rockstar to MIDI transpiler?
- dylanbeattie 5y ago
  Not yet... ;)
zerocount 5y ago
This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in programming.

341 points by skanderbm 5y ago

pluc 5y ago

> The keywords it, he, she, him, her, they, them, ze, hir, zie, zir, xe, xem, ve, and ver refer to the last named variable determined by parsing order. that was funny. let's have more social constructs in programming languages!

tzs 5y ago
I've actually seriously suggested that we make pronouns like that for English. The conventional system with just "he" and "she" and "it" is clearly inadequate because it doesn't handle the case where you have more than one noun that should have the same pronoun. That's a very easy case to hit. We are essentially using a 1.58-bit hash function to map nouns to pronouns, which has very poor collision resistance and it is a somewhat subjective hash function when dealing with anything whose gender you aren't sure of. We could add a bunch more pronouns to support more bits in the hash--that's what many people who consider themselves non-binary gendered are advocating. That can solve the problem of not having enough bits in the hash, but still leaves the problem of the hash function being subjective. In fact, it makes it more subjective because at least with "he" or "she" the default is to go by appearance unless you know that this is incorrect. With zie, zir, xem, and the rest everyone is a special case. Position based pronouns fix the hash problem by not using a hash, and fix the subjectivity problem by not being based on any characteristics of the noun to which they refer in a given sentence. Keep "he" and "she" with their current meaning for backward compatibility, and then add new pronouns that refer to the 1st noun in the sentence, the 2nd noun in the sentence, and so on, and add a similar set that refer to the nouns in the previous sentence (and count as nouns for determining pronouns in the current sentence).

0x4d464d48 5y ago

Hehe, nice. \m/

motohagiography 5y ago

Awe inspiring. I recorded a song where the lyrics were a parsable brainfuck program after wondering if a) daftpunk's higher bigger faster was turing complete, and b) whether the same was true of never gonna give you up. For me it was substituting high concept for talent, but what else are you going to do in pandemic lockdown. Rockstar tho, this is next level.

lewispollard 5y ago
I'm sorry what? Can you explain all of those things??

deleted 5y ago

[deleted]

philipswood 5y ago

And then there's the "Enterprise" programming language: https://github.com/joaomilho/Enterprise https://github.com/joaomilho/Enterprise So that you can rockstar at night, Enterprise by day until someone offers you the blue/red pill.

pohl 5y ago

Check out this conference talk from December 2019 – "The Art of Code" – which culminates in a live performance of Fizzbuzz in Rockstar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdSlcxxYAA8

evanchisholm 5y ago
The art of code is such a good talk. I've watched it a few times and enjoy it every single time.
montebicyclelo 5y ago
(this (very enjoyable) talk is by the author of the linked web site)
cs702 5y ago
Anyway, so I'm watching the hugely entertaining video to which you linked, only to find that a comment I made about Rockstar on HN a long while ago is on the video: https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3226 https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3226 -- totally unexpected. Brought a smile to my face. Thank you for sharing!
technobabbler 5y ago
The actual performance starts at 57:46 (https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3466 https://youtu.be/gdSlcxxYAA8?t=3466) and ends in a higher plane of existence.
BbzzbB 5y ago
I've just finished listening to that great talk before I searched HN to check up on the original share, surprised to see such a recent repost! I don't recall laughing out loud so often at a dev talk while it also showed some amazing snippets of, well, the art of code. If someone has other talks of this nature to recommend (and is lost in this 7d+ post), I'm all ears.

syvon 5y ago

This reminds me of https://shakespearelang.com/ https://shakespearelang.com/

gordaco 5y ago

Nice to see people rediscovering this language from time to time. I wrote an interpreter for an early version several years ago, just for fun. Possibly my favourite esoteric language. I particularly love the philosophy of "if you write even a single line of Rockstar, then you can consider yourself a full-fledged Rockstar programmer" (I'm paraphrasing, but I remember something like that in some official documentation).

obesacantavit 5y ago

Lol

qart 5y ago
That would be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

Taywee 5y ago

How long before Take-Two Interactive sues for trademark? https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interactive%20Software,%20Inc.%20%20 https://ttabvue.uspto.gov/ttabvue/v?pnam=Take-Two%20Interact...

seanw444 5y ago
Holy cow...
gbraad 5y ago
Immediately had the same thought.
kube-system 5y ago
The only registered marks for the mark “ROCKSTAR” I see in TESS for Take-Two are in the clothing and apparel industry. So if anything, it’s the T Shirts that are the problem.

gfalcao 5y ago

I have not laughed to genuinely hard in a LONG LONG time, everything about this programming language rocks! (yes I did it)

hu3 5y ago

This is how Advent of Code day 7 solution looks like in Rockstar [1]: My plaything is your mind Cast my plaything into the void Listen to my heart Shatter my heart with the void Natsuki is frightened Yuri is gentleness Poems are invaluable Rock reality While my heart isn't mysterious Roll my heart into the world Burn the world into my hope If my hope is less than Natsuki Let Natsuki be my hope If my hope is greater than Yuri Let Yuri be my hope Let Sayori be reality at my hope If Sayori is mysterious Sayori is hereabouts Build Sayori up Let reality at my hope be Sayori Build poems up My end is justifying My thoughts are knowledgable Let the volume be poems over my thoughts My hope is accessible Turn down the volume Build Yuri up While my hope is less than Yuri Let my target be reality at my hope If my target is not mysterious Let the volume be the volume without my target If my end is nothing If the volume is less than my end Let my end be my hope Build my hope up My hope is accessible My passion is literature My heart is courageous Knock my heart down While my hope is less than Yuri Let my poem be reality at my hope If my poem is not mysterious Let my fear be my end without my hope If my fear is as weak as my heart Let my fear be my fear of my heart Let my fear be my fear of my poem Let my passion be my passion with my fear Build my hope up Shout my passion [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_day_7_solutions/hnkbroh https://old.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/rar7ty/2021_d...

dane-pgp 5y ago
That's good, but I was expecting it to contain a wheel rotating in six dimensions, forty gears and a ticking clock.
- selimthegrim 5y ago
  Ezekiel was away on other business.

amildie 5y ago

Thanks, OP, I can finally become that 'Rockstar Developer' that companies are always looking for.

ethbr0 5y ago
https://codewithrockstar.com/swag https://codewithrockstar.com/swag Also, Def Leppard is still releasing albums? impressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Def_Leppard_(album) (also, cool to have your 11th studio album be your eponymous one)
- saghm 5y ago
  Dream Theater did the same thing for their twelfth album: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater_(album) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_Theater_(album) Maybe naming things is also one of the hardest problems in rock 'n roll?
- rob74 5y ago
  You wouldn't believe how many bands from the eighties/nineties are still around - out of the spotlight, some of them not with the original lineup, but still there for their faithful fans. Except for R.E.M. unfortunately, who disbanded in 2011...
  - ethbr0 5y ago
    R.E.M. always walked their own path. Said as someone born and raised in Athens. ;-) I had the luck to be at their induction into the GA Music Hall of Fame, by none other than Max Cleland. https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/group-award-presented-by-former-sen-max-cleland-to-r-e-m-news-photo/117414988 https://www.gettyimages.in/detail/news-photo/group-award-pre...
- BeFlatXIII 5y ago
  Even though I’m always in evil mode when in eMacs, I still want that Vim Hater logo.
5y ago

leodriesch 5y ago

While it is probably not a very good idea to use this to code, it reminds me of something DHH once said about Ruby. I don’t have the quote, but he said that he just loves the language because it is so fun to write for him, despite it not being the optimal language. And this alone makes him get into flow much more easily and therefore be more productive. This alone has made me gain interest in learning Ruby. It might be slower than lots of languages out there, but backend computing power is often not the main bottleneck in your stack. Developer velocity is probably much more important when it comes to producing great software and moving fast.

exdsq 5y ago
There are cool tools to be more efficient using factory workers such as https://github.com/contribsys/faktory_worker_ruby https://github.com/contribsys/faktory_worker_ruby I'm keen to pick up ruby too!
setpatchaddress 5y ago
Kind of a tangent, but Ruby-is-slow was always contextual. Ruby was always hugely faster than complex bash scripts for the same task. If you value launch time, Python (at least through 2.x) was always slower from a cold launch compared with Ruby.
bcrosby95 5y ago
This is how I look at vim. I don't think typing speed really matters for development. But I just find it so fun to see how much I can target exactly the chunk of code I want to change. It turns coding itself into a game.

krylon 5y ago

I was excited initially, but Hair Metal is an obvious no-go for me. Although it could be fun to do "reverse Perl poetry", and find Hard Rock / Hair Metal songs whose lyrics are valid Rockstar code. That way, we could finally find out what that one special song really means. \m/ (> <) \m/

erik_seaberg 5y ago
Pretty sure \m/ (> <) \m/ is the next Haskell infix operator beyond monads and arrows.
kergonath 5y ago
One band absolutely needs to do that.
dylanbeattie 5y ago
Hello. Dylan here. This is all my fault. :) The song that I think would compile with the fewest changes to the language spec is Scorpions' "Rock You Like A Hurricane". I don't think it'd reveal any hidden meaning or anything, though... it's really just a long list of assignment statements. You need to spell 'Night' on line 2 with a capital 'N'; same with 'What' on line 4, and some liberal use of parentheses, but the first four lines do actually compile: It's early morning, the sun comes out Last Night was shaking and pretty loud My cat is purring, it scratches my skin So What is wrong (with another sin)? The rest is, um, work in progress. And it may not be a coincidence that the stack push/pop operators in Rockstar are called "rock" and "roll", and the syntax was designed so that "rock you like a hurricane" is syntactically valid Rockstar code.
- krylon 5y ago
  The songs would not have to do anything useful, the important point is that they are syntactically valid. Compare "Black Perl": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl (It was posted anonymously, but I remember reading somewhere Larry Wall has later admitted to being the author. Wikipedia claims authorship is still unclear, though.)

naltun 5y ago

The author of Rockstar gave a _fantastic_ presentation called The Art of Code, where he eventually introduces the language. I cannot praise the talk enough. It is available on YouTube.

ChrisArchitect 5y ago

(2019)

deleted 5y ago
[deleted]

spikepuppet 5y ago

Hair Metal in the title had me interested, and this didn't disappoint. Thanks OP.

jamespwilliams 5y ago

> Tommy used to work on the docs. Nice

jameshart 5y ago
UnionBean.onStrike();
- mixmastamyk 5y ago
  // He's down on his luck, it's tough…
  - mindcrime 5y ago
    /* Gina works the diner all day... */
organman91 5y ago
When I originally saw the talk this line killed me. Gotta be in my top ten favorite puns I've ever seen.
- jgehrcke 5y ago
  Would you mind explaining? :-) I'm okay with potentially looking stupid here and ask for all of us who don't get this pun!
  - LeonM 5y ago
    It's the opening line in the lyrics of Bon Jovi's Livin' on a Prayer.
airstrike 5y ago
And the docs are littered with references... > Cut my life into pieces

DonHopkins 5y ago

Is there a Rockstar => Airline Food transpiler? https://esolangs.org/wiki/Airline_Food https://esolangs.org/wiki/Airline_Food >Airline Food is an esoteric programming language created by User:Largejamie in April 2021 whose programs are supposed to look like Jerry Seinfeld's stand-up. Factorial: Takes an input from the user and outputs its factorial You ever notice this? What's the deal with airline food? What's the deal with it? Right? So... Um, Just like it. Yeah, Not like this. Moving on... Um, See?

togaen 5y ago

Greatest thing I have ever seen.

rgrieselhuber 5y ago

I've always thought it would be cool if classical poetry turned out to be source code.

zanethomas 5y ago

haha, like for sure i wrote a valgol language interpreter in the early 80s

mixmastamyk 5y ago

Off to implement The Final Countdown…

anonymous_i 5y ago

Why is this blocked in India? "The website has been blocked as per order of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under IT Act, 2000."

tyingq 5y ago
Here's a list of the possible offenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act,_2000#Offences https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology_Act,_20...

a9h74j 5y ago

Do heavy metal lyrics in other spoken languages use postfix? How does noun placement affect the poetics/performance of metal?

captn3m0 5y ago

Website is blocked in India because CloudFlare has a terrible ISP in India: https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/11 https://github.com/RockstarLang/codewithrockstar.com/issues/... I wrote a thread on why this keeps happening and why CloudFlare needs to fix it: https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761 https://twitter.com/captn3m0/status/1468454402956533761

dylanbeattie 5y ago
I had no idea. Thanks for spotting this; I've flipped the site over to use CloudFlare Full/strict TLS; if that doesn't work I can turn off CloudFlare proxying completely.

sellerie 5y ago

Wow that sample code sounds 100% like DragonForce lyrics

singingfish 5y ago

is there a Rockstar to MIDI transpiler?

dylanbeattie 5y ago
Not yet... ;)

zerocount 5y ago

This is the dumbest thing I've ever seen in programming.