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If you want to see programming-as-carefully-formatted-English taken to the extreme, check out Inform 7, a system for writing interactive fiction. For example,
by jcl 12y ago
If you want to see programming-as-carefully-formatted-English taken to the extreme, check out Inform 7, a system for writing interactive fiction. For example, here is the complete source of a game:
http://inform7.com/learn/eg/glass/source.txt http://inform7.com/learn/eg/glass/source.txt
- rspeer 12y agoAnyone remember the cryptic document that _why posted in the form of a printer spool [1], years after his disappearance from programming? It was a sort of fictional, surrealist autobiography. [1] http://www.scribd.com/doc/136875051/why-s-complete-printer-spool-as-one-book http://www.scribd.com/doc/136875051/why-s-complete-printer-s... I was grinning madly when I noticed -- in the part where he's exploring an island -- the page written in syntactically valid Inform 7.