Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code (opens in new tab)

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89 pointsgaryng6y ago34 comments

34 comments

BerislavLopac6y ago

Why code in faux Latin when you can use the real thing: http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html

airstrike6y ago

This is clearly the work of both a madman and a genius

ClumsyPilot6y ago

This is so cool! I love it.

I am a Russian speaker, and this ambiguous aspect of English has always bugged me to hell! I think english was a bad model as a starting point for programming languages.

Aloha6y ago

How so?

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meddlepal6y ago

I just proposed my team switch to this haha, awesome.

jacobush6y ago

I didn't expect it, but I thought Perligata is more readable than Perl.

skykooler6y ago

At least, apart from numbers, which all are rendered in Roman numerals.

libeclipse6y ago

Not a difficult task lol

abhijitparida6y ago

The name is kind of misleading. I expected it to generate random lines of code, instead of just replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum.

moontear6y ago

Same thought here. I thought something along the lines of hackertyper. Something that looks like real code, but isn't.

Sohcahtoa826y ago

> I thought something along the lines of hackertyper. Something that looks like real code, but isn't.

Hackertyper is absolutely using real code.

Specifically, it's using groups.c from the Linux kernel:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups....

Compare that to the code used by Hackertyper:

http://hackertyper.com/code.txt

XCabbage6y ago

For whatever it's worth, I didn't share your expectation. The real lorem ipsum is just a fixed load of text, after all - describing something as "lorem ipsum but for code" shouldn't necessarily imply any functionality.

wongarsu6y ago

Given that lorem ipsum is a fixed load of text, as you said, I would have expected a lorem ipsum for code to be a fixed load of code (that's nonsensical but looks real enough from afar).

FunnyLookinHat6y ago

I thought the same thing.

pomber6y ago

Hey, I made this. I needed dummy but syntactically valid code to show in demos like this one: https://github.com/pomber/code-surfer/blob/code-surfer-v2/re...

omarhaneef6y ago

Wait, this is just for dummy code for demos? I've been using at work for our production system. I figured the compiler would catch any mistakes...

john-radio6y ago

Let me know how it goes with the compiler, I've got too much angel capital invested in this by now for it not to work!

swagonomixxx6y ago

As some others in this thread, I feel bamboozled.

What I was hoping for is a "Lorem Ipsum"-style generator for code for like 10 different languages. So you'd have a Lorem Ipsum for JS, C++, Rust, etc.

This is just find/replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum, which doesn't really mask the underlying code that well.

0xDEEPFAC6y ago

Lorem Ipsum but for javascript

Someone6y ago

Unfortunately, this doesn’t lorem ipsum code comments.

I also wonder how large such an obfuscated code fragment would need to be to be able to find back the original code on GitHub/GitLab.

mike_hock6y ago

The "lorem ipsum" identifier names are foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, etc.

wa19876y ago

There's even a fancy umbrella term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable

lettergram6y ago

No description of what’s happening (on mobile anyway), but it looks like the variables are being replaced?

tyingq6y ago

Identifiers too. It's using the babel.js compiler so the approach is pretty straightforward: https://github.com/pomber/codem-ipsum/blob/master/index.html

madacol6y ago

I think it should not replace the `length` property of an intentional array.

gatherhunterer6y ago

It looks like dolor is assigned without first being initialized.

pc866y ago

No, it's passed in as a parameter with a default value of 1

gatherhunterer6y ago

I see, the two columns are hard to read on mobile.

Raphmedia6y ago

It keeps throwing me

"SyntaxError: unknown: Unexpected token (1:20)"

on valid code

cryptozeus6y ago

Where would one use this ?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

34 comments

BerislavLopac6y ago

Why code in faux Latin when you can use the real thing: http://users.monash.edu/~damian/papers/HTML/Perligata.html

airstrike6y ago

This is clearly the work of both a madman and a genius

ClumsyPilot6y ago

This is so cool! I love it.

I am a Russian speaker, and this ambiguous aspect of English has always bugged me to hell! I think english was a bad model as a starting point for programming languages.

Aloha6y ago

How so?

1 more reply

meddlepal6y ago

I just proposed my team switch to this haha, awesome.

jacobush6y ago

I didn't expect it, but I thought Perligata is more readable than Perl.

skykooler6y ago

At least, apart from numbers, which all are rendered in Roman numerals.

libeclipse6y ago

Not a difficult task lol

abhijitparida6y ago

The name is kind of misleading. I expected it to generate random lines of code, instead of just replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum.

moontear6y ago

Same thought here. I thought something along the lines of hackertyper. Something that looks like real code, but isn't.

Sohcahtoa826y ago

> I thought something along the lines of hackertyper. Something that looks like real code, but isn't.

Hackertyper is absolutely using real code.

Specifically, it's using groups.c from the Linux kernel:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/groups....

Compare that to the code used by Hackertyper:

http://hackertyper.com/code.txt

XCabbage6y ago

wongarsu6y ago

Given that lorem ipsum is a fixed load of text, as you said, I would have expected a lorem ipsum for code to be a fixed load of code (that's nonsensical but looks real enough from afar).

FunnyLookinHat6y ago

I thought the same thing.

pomber6y ago

Hey, I made this. I needed dummy but syntactically valid code to show in demos like this one: https://github.com/pomber/code-surfer/blob/code-surfer-v2/re...

omarhaneef6y ago

Wait, this is just for dummy code for demos? I've been using at work for our production system. I figured the compiler would catch any mistakes...

john-radio6y ago

Let me know how it goes with the compiler, I've got too much angel capital invested in this by now for it not to work!

swagonomixxx6y ago

As some others in this thread, I feel bamboozled.

What I was hoping for is a "Lorem Ipsum"-style generator for code for like 10 different languages. So you'd have a Lorem Ipsum for JS, C++, Rust, etc.

This is just find/replacing identifiers with lorem ipsum, which doesn't really mask the underlying code that well.

0xDEEPFAC6y ago

Lorem Ipsum but for javascript

Someone6y ago

Unfortunately, this doesn’t lorem ipsum code comments.

I also wonder how large such an obfuscated code fragment would need to be to be able to find back the original code on GitHub/GitLab.

mike_hock6y ago

The "lorem ipsum" identifier names are foo, bar, baz, qux, quux, etc.

wa19876y ago

There's even a fancy umbrella term:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable

lettergram6y ago

No description of what’s happening (on mobile anyway), but it looks like the variables are being replaced?

tyingq6y ago

Identifiers too. It's using the babel.js compiler so the approach is pretty straightforward: https://github.com/pomber/codem-ipsum/blob/master/index.html

madacol6y ago

I think it should not replace the `length` property of an intentional array.

gatherhunterer6y ago

It looks like dolor is assigned without first being initialized.

pc866y ago

No, it's passed in as a parameter with a default value of 1

gatherhunterer6y ago

I see, the two columns are hard to read on mobile.

Raphmedia6y ago

It keeps throwing me

"SyntaxError: unknown: Unexpected token (1:20)"

on valid code

cryptozeus6y ago

Where would one use this ?

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse