I just found a new programming language that I think has some really interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some to improve D!

http://lolcode.com/

	-- Daniel

-- 
int getRandomNumber()
{
    return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
              // guaranteed to be random.
}

http://xkcd.com/

v2sw5+8Yhw5ln4+5pr6OFPma8u6+7Lw4Tm6+7l6+7D i28a2Xs3MSr2e4/6+7t4TNSMb6HTOp5en5g6RAHCP  http://hackerkey.com/

Daniel Keep wrote:
> I just found a new programming language that I think has some really
> interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some
> to improve D!
> 
> http://lolcode.com/
> 
> 	-- Daniel
> 

The politest language ever.  You literally have to beg the language to do stuff for u.  This is great!

AWSUM THX
-Joel

janderson wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> I just found a new programming language that I think has some really
>> interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some
>> to improve D!
>>
>> http://lolcode.com/
>>
>>     -- Daniel
>>
> 
> The politest language ever.  You literally have to beg the language to do stuff for u.  This is great!
> 
> AWSUM THX
> -Joel


I just love this one

http://lolcode.com/examples/little-number

janderson wrote:
> janderson wrote:
>> Daniel Keep wrote:
>>> I just found a new programming language that I think has some really interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some to improve D!
>>>
>>> http://lolcode.com/
>>>
>>>     -- Daniel
>>>
>>
>> The politest language ever.  You literally have to beg the language to do stuff for u.  This is great!
>>
>> AWSUM THX
>> -Joel
> 
> 
> I just love this one
> 
> http://lolcode.com/examples/little-number

D definitely needs this statement: http://lolcode.com/keywords/diaf

:3

-- 
int getRandomNumber()
{
    return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
              // guaranteed to be random.
}

http://xkcd.com/

v2sw5+8Yhw5ln4+5pr6OFPma8u6+7Lw4Tm6+7l6+7D i28a2Xs3MSr2e4/6+7t4TNSMb6HTOp5en5g6RAHCP  http://hackerkey.com/

And I was going to use this language as an argument for a well-crafted language designed by a community effort....

Daniel Keep Wrote:

> 
> 
> janderson wrote:
> > janderson wrote:
> >> Daniel Keep wrote:
> >>> I just found a new programming language that I think has some really interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some to improve D!
> >>>
> >>> http://lolcode.com/
> >>>
> >>>     -- Daniel
> >>>
> >>
> >> The politest language ever.  You literally have to beg the language to do stuff for u.  This is great!
> >>
> >> AWSUM THX
> >> -Joel
> > 
> > 
> > I just love this one
> > 
> > http://lolcode.com/examples/little-number
> 
> D definitely needs this statement: http://lolcode.com/keywords/diaf
> 
> :3
> 
> -- 
> int getRandomNumber()
> {
>     return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll.
>               // guaranteed to be random.
> }
> 
> http://xkcd.com/
> 
> v2sw5+8Yhw5ln4+5pr6OFPma8u6+7Lw4Tm6+7l6+7D i28a2Xs3MSr2e4/6+7t4TNSMb6HTOp5en5g6RAHCP  http://hackerkey.com/

> And I was going to use this language as an argument for a well-crafted language designed by a community effort....

Why 'was'?
Everybody here seems really excited about this language (me including).
I think you should use it for exactly what you are purposing.
btw. D could easily implement most of the suggestions made on the site.

Saaa wrote:
>> And I was going to use this language as an argument for a well-crafted language designed by a community effort....
> 
> Why 'was'?
> Everybody here seems really excited about this language (me including).
> I think you should use it for exactly what you are purposing.
> btw. D could easily implement most of the suggestions made on the site. 
> 
> 

Apart from the 1337 speak some of the ideas are ok.  If you take it from the point of view that its a community driven joke, then its been well designed for that purpose.

I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to use mixins to implement this language in D.  I also imagine the community would be over the moon because its current implementations suck.

-Joel

Daniel Keep wrote:
> I just found a new programming language that I think has some really
> interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some
> to improve D!
> 
> http://lolcode.com/
> 
> 	-- Daniel
> 


LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL AWESOME. :D
A friend of mine had mentioned this already, and I too was about to post it here in the NG, despite flagrantly OT.
More seriously though, like anderson mentioned, it would be really cool (and maybe some good D publicity too) to implement a D lolcode compiler with mixin text macros. Anyone up to the challenge? (I don't have time for that unfortunately :S)

-- 
Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
http://www.prowiki.org/wiki4d/wiki.cgi?BrunoMedeiros#D

On Thu, 31 May 2007 12:28:55 +1000
Daniel Keep <daniel.keep.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> I just found a new programming language that I think has some really interesting features we should look at; maybe we could incorporate some to improve D!
> 
> http://lolcode.com/
> 
> 	-- Daniel
> 

AWSUM THX!

"Bruno Medeiros" <brunodomedeiros+spam@com.gmail> wrote in message news:f3p16p$2bfd$1@digitalmars.com...
> LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL AWESOME. :D
> A friend of mine had mentioned this already, and I too was about to post
> it here in the NG, despite flagrantly OT.
> More seriously though, like anderson mentioned, it would be really cool
> (and maybe some good D publicity too) to implement a D lolcode compiler
> with mixin text macros. Anyone up to the challenge? (I don't have time for
> that unfortunately :S)

One problem with compiling the Lolcode into D code is that Lolcode seems to be dynamically typed.  We'd have to implement a variadic type, and things get even trickier if Lolcode functions, when a syntax is decided for them, are first-class and with variable numbers of parameters.

On the other hand, we already have the MiniD VM at our disposal, a dynamically-typed language VM with first-class functions with variable numbers of parameters ;)  The only thing that would have to be changed would be the lexer and parser; virtually all the Lolcode constructs have analogues in MiniD code, and can be represented by a MiniD AST.  This is all done at runtime, though.

If we still want to use compile-time constructs for compiling the Lolcode source, it might be better to compile to MiniD source, and then compile that at run-time.  Targeting the MiniD bytecode directly using compile-time code would probably be pretty awful :S