For example, take the title. Imagine if the PL was a declarative way of describing a distributed system, with HTTP endpoints or web sockets connecting modules. Then, for harvesting, it gives unbounded ability for nodes to read and write to other nodes outside of the standard interface. You can just go in and read/write their data, without any public interface needed. Of course someone else can probably come up with something better, but I think it’d be cool to see something that more fully uses what a “programming language” means.
When I think of parody or satire in programming languages, the example that comes to mind is the "C plus equality" project used for rather trolling critique of contemporary "social justice" ideology.
I love this.
Trump programs would end with "Thank you for your attention to this matter."
(It's not enough to copy Snapchat - probably severely financially hurting them, by stealing their Prior Art - you have to do things like https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/snapchat-reporte... as well, and just remember: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122)
This was made by claude code as a demo to someone, and because I thought it would be funny.
It actually works have a look: https://github.com/jayzalowitz/zucksharp
- the programming language part is dropped almost immediately by the LLM.
- The unrelated meat emojis to give it an animated background
- Painfully generic / not attempting to make a joke: "This language finally lets me express my true feelings about variable assignment."
- Every section has exactly the "right" length, ~3-5 items per list, ~2-3 paragraphs per section.
Hate to eat downvotes for saying this, I hate what FB / Zuck too and understand the impulse to treat it as unneeded negativity.
However, I've been on HN for 16 years, and can't remember a time I've seen a human-generated surface-level satire persist in the top posts. Seems to me the length and subject let the slop skate, at least so far.
The meat emojis are relevant
... any other version will break it. RIP SW engineering.
I guess this has become a mantra: "Going forward is a way to retreat. " TTOP
Yeah actually, I wanted to demonstrate claude code, and my relatively complicated process for developement to someone, so I made a programming language to show them.
I actually met mark when we were both mentoring the fwd.us hackathon, from that limited interaction, I do think hed probably get a reasonable chuckle out of this.
