The English Esoteric Programming Language

(esolangs.org)

21 points | by LordRatte 5 days ago ago

8 comments

  • olooney 3 hours ago

    I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month:

    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.

  • johnisgood 2 hours ago

    Lojban 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

  • tromp 3 hours 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...

  • ndsipa_pomu 3 hours ago

    I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.

    • SkiFire13 3 hours ago

      I think that's called poetry

    • superfish 3 hours ago

      It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".

    • FranchuFranchu 3 hours ago

      Legalese is just obfuscated English

      • fuzztester 3 hours ago

        MBAese too.

        e.g. "at this point in time" for "now" or "right now"

        Google MBA Speak generator.