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The English Esoteric Programming Language
- ndsipa_pomu 2y agoI'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
- superfish 2y agoIt'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".
- FranchuFranchu 2y agoLegalese is just obfuscated English
- fuzztester 2y agoMBAese too. e.g. "at this point in time" for "now" or "right now" Google MBA Speak generator.
- SkiFire13 2y agoI think that's called poetry
- olooney 2y agoI wrote an implementation of this programming language last month: https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen It is a terrible, terrible idea, but it does work. It uses GPT-4 to read Python docstrings and magically implement working functions from English descriptions.
- tromp 2y ago> This program writes "Hello World" (without quotes) to the output. > This program outputs Hello World. So that alternative doesn't quite work for writing "its own source" without quotes...
- johnisgood 2y agoLojban may be the only spoken language you could write a programming language in, a programmable spoken language... English, not so much due to its inherent limitations related to natural languages. :P