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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
by 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 agoPretty sure \m/ (> <) \m/ is the next Haskell infix operator beyond monads and arrows.
- kergonath 5y agoOne band absolutely needs to do that.
- dylanbeattie 5y agoHello. 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 agoThe 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.)