Ok, I somehow came across this today:
Whitespace is an esoteric programming language developed by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris at the University of Durham. It was released on 1 April 2003. Its name is a reference to whitespace characters. Unlike most programming languages, which ignore or assign little meaning to most whitespace characters, the Whitespace interpreter ignores any non-whitespace characters. Only spaces, tabs and linefeeds have meaning. A consequence of this property is that a Whitespace program can easily be contained within the whitespace characters of a program written in another language, except possibly in languages which depend on spaces for syntax validity such as Python, making the text a polyglot.
Which led me to this:
- http://nik.works/project/bodyfuck/ (an implementation of brainfuck that uses a camera as input) don't worry, it's SFW and actually well done
That reminded of this good ol' classic:
ArnoldC
Programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Motivation
Although the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger are fairly well known the true semantics of the uttering is yet to be understood. This project tries to discover new meanings from the Arnold movies with the means of computer science.
HelloWorld.arnoldc
IT'S SHOWTIME
TALK TO THE HAND "hello world"
YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED
Quick Start
wget http://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC.jar
echo -e "IT'S SHOWTIME\nTALK TO THE HAND \"hello world\"\nYOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED" > hello.arnoldc
java -jar ArnoldC.jar hello.arnoldc
java hello
To create some "audible" output you can try the -declaim option:
java -jar ArnoldC.jar -declaim hello.arnoldc
Brief overview of the keywords
Check the wiki for more details
False I LIED
True NO PROBLEMO
If BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SAY PLEASE
Else BULLSHIT
EndIf YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC
While STICK AROUND
EndWhile CHILL
PlusOperator GET UP
MinusOperator GET DOWN
MultiplicationOperator YOU'RE FIRED
Really tho, I could go on forever but now I'm curious to what sort of weird programming-related stuff you guys have seen throughout the years, add your findings below in the comments 👇 (oh gosh, here we go 😅)
And while we're at it, let's end this post with a video because why not
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Top comments (3)
No discussion of interesting programming stuff would be complete without mentioning INTERCAL, one of the original esoteric programming languages. The syntax includes the keyword
PLEASE, which is a no-op, except that if it doesn't appear enough in the program, the compiler will complain about it being impolite, and if it appears too much, the compiler will complain about it being too polite.Other ones I've found particularly interesting over the years include:
Also possibly of interest, there has been at least one hardware implementation of Brainfuck, called the MENTAL-1.
One of my favorites is that this Java code prints "Hello World"
Reference
cool idea showing programming concepts with dance