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31 pointsLordRatte1y ago8 comments

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I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month:

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.

johnisgood1y 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

tromp1y 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_pomu1y ago

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

SkiFire131y ago

I think that's called poetry

superfish1y ago

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

FranchuFranchu1y ago

Legalese is just obfuscated English

fuzztester1y ago

MBAese too.

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

Google MBA Speak generator.

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