I wants LOLcodes!

[OdinsCat]

Okay how much work do I have to beyond typing that into the terminal?

[timrowledge]

I’d say it is a pretty good mickey-take of the strained syntax that so many people consider ‘normal’ for programming.

[Heater]

OdinsCat,

Okay how much work do I have to beyond typing that into the terminal?

None. That just works.

Of course you need to write or otherwise obtain a "yourfile.lol" file containing the LOLCODE program you want to run.

Use the text editor of your choice to do that. Or start by running one of the examples posted to this thread.

So I guess the work you have to do is learn the LOLCODE language. See the LOLCODE language specification here:
https://github.com/justinmeza/lolcode-s ... ec-v1.2.md

You will find example LOLCODE programs in the lci Github repository here: https://github.com/justinmeza/lci/tree/ ... /1.3-Tests

[Heater]

timrowledge,

I’d say it is a pretty good mickey-take of the strained syntax that so many people consider ‘normal’ for programming.

You might be right. We finally found a syntax that makes Smalltalk look readable

[hippy]

We finally found a syntax that makes Smalltalk look readable

But if you go at it with a text editor and just global replace LOL Code phrases for Javascript terms you do end up with readable, if not great, Javascript.

Okay it's a little more complicated than that but something a simple program can translate and fix-up to turn into viable Javascript. It is more Javascript than C because of lack of typing.

"I HAS DOLLARS ITZ 100" isn't a million miles away from "var dollars = 100;"

So the syntax isn't that bad, it's more that it's unfamiliar, more verbose than we're used to, and it's at odds with our sensibilities. But from what I can remember of Cobol and dBase it's not the first.

[Heater]

Back in the days of the big legal wrangling over the busting of the CSS encryption on DVD's there was serious argument as to whether software that decrypted DVDs could be banned as a "circumvention device" or whether it's publication was protected as free speech. After all, it was only text that one could print on a tee shirt!

See DVD John : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lech_Johansen and the DeCSS case.

Now, somebody set out to demonstrate that software was as much regular speech or writing by creating a Perl script that could turn C source code into plainly readable English, correct grammar and all, that described the code. Not only that but it could do the reverse, English into C that could be compiled.

What we have here with LOLCODE is a more direct way to do that. With a stripped down version of English spelling and grammar for sure but readable as such none the less. No translation to a "programming language" required to run it.

By the way, Javascript has types. I think what was meant was "dynamically typed".

[ejolson]

OdinsCat,

Okay how much work do I have to beyond typing that into the terminal?

None. That just works.

ON MAH RASPBERRY PI I HAD 2 FURST INSTALL CMAEK 4 DA BUILD 2 WERK USIN

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$ sudo apt-get install cmake

[Heater]

Well of course. Goes with out saying when building C programs.

Or of course one could have read the lci installation instructions I linked to early in this thread: https://github.com/justinmeza/lci

"PREREQUISITES
1 You must have CMake installed (www.cmake.org). a) If you're using a Linux distro with package management CMake should be in your repositories.
..."

[ejolson]

Well of course. Goes with out saying when building C programs.

Or of course one could have read the lci installation instructions I linked to early in this thread: https://github.com/justinmeza/lci

"PREREQUISITES
1 You must have CMake installed (www.cmake.org). a) If you're using a Linux distro with package management CMake should be in your repositories.
..."

YEZ, I ALSO SAW TEH NED 4 CMAEK IN DA DOCUMENTASHUN. I MENSHUND IT CUZ IT WUZ LEFT OUT FRUM TEH INSTRUCSHUNS POSTD EARLIR IN DIS THREAD AN MAH PI DID NOT COME WIF CMAEK PREINSTALLD.

I FINKZ DAT INDEXD ARRAYS R NOT THAR IN DA MASTAH BRANCH. NAO, CUZ THAR IZ LIL DAT CAN BE DUN WITHOUT SUM SORT OV INDEXD MEMS, VARIABLEZ OR ASSOCIATIV ARRAYS, I CUD HAS 2 UNINSTAL AN SWITCH BAK 2 CODIN IN BASIC.

HAS U TRID FUCHUR BRANCH 2 C IF IT HAS WERKIN ARRAYS?

[Heater]

ejolson,

I have not tried any kind of array or list in LOLCODE yet.

But there are tests for array operations in the lci repo: https://github.com/justinmeza/lci/tree/ ... /12-Arrays

For example:

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HAI 1.3
	I HAS A foo ITZ A BUKKIT
KTHXBYE

And there is an example using indexed arrays here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lolcode/ ... amples.htm

[ejolson]

ejolson,

I have not tried any kind of array or list in LOLCODE yet.

But there are tests for array operations in the lci repo: https://github.com/justinmeza/lci/tree/ ... /12-Arrays

For example:

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HAI 1.3
	I HAS A foo ITZ A BUKKIT
KTHXBYE

And there is an example using indexed arrays here: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lolcode/ ... amples.htm

I HAS SPENT TEH LAST HOUR LOOKIN AT TEH UNIT TESTS 4 ARRAYS AN CONCLUDD THEY R NOT LIEK ARRAYS AT ALL BUT MOAR LIEK STRUCTUREZ WIF NAMD ELEMENTS. IM BIT DISAPPOINTD RLY, CUZ I WUZ LOOKIN FWD 2 WRITIN HOOJ NUMBR FIBONACCI CALCULASHUN.

THAR IZ PROPOSAL 4 INDEXD ARRAYS HER, BUT I FINKZ NO WAN HAS DUN TEH WERK 2 IMPLEMENT THEM.

EDIT: MAYBE DAT TUTORIAL U LINKD 2 WILL HALP.

[hippy]

ON MAH RASPBERRY PI I HAD 2 FURST INSTALL CMAEK 4 DA BUILD 2 WERK USIN

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$ sudo apt-get install cmake

Mea culpa, or whatever the LOL is for that - In my day it was "double-plus done not-good".

It had already been installed for me and I wrongly presumed it was pre-installed by default on Raspbian. I've added the apt-get for cmake in my earlier post. Thanks.

[hippy]

I HAS SPENT TEH LAST HOUR LOOKIN AT TEH UNIT TESTS 4 ARRAYS AN CONCLUDD THEY R NOT LIEK ARRAYS AT ALL BUT MOAR LIEK STRUCTUREZ WIF NAMD ELEMENTS. IM BIT DISAPPOINTD RLY, CUZ I WUZ LOOKIN FWD 2 WRITIN HOOJ NUMBR FIBONACCI CALCULASHUN.

Arrays seem more like dictionaries (WERD BOOKZ) or associative arrays (BFF). They should be usable in an optimised fibo but the implementation may make them slow.

[ejolson]

I HAS SPENT TEH LAST HOUR LOOKIN AT TEH UNIT TESTS 4 ARRAYS AN CONCLUDD THEY R NOT LIEK ARRAYS AT ALL BUT MOAR LIEK STRUCTUREZ WIF NAMD ELEMENTS. IM BIT DISAPPOINTD RLY, CUZ I WUZ LOOKIN FWD 2 WRITIN HOOJ NUMBR FIBONACCI CALCULASHUN.

Arrays seem more like dictionaries (WERD BOOKZ) or associative arrays (BFF). They should be usable in an optimised fibo but the implementation may make them slow.

THAR IZ NAO HOOJ-NUMBR FIBONACCI CALCULATOR WRITTEN IN LOLCODE AVAILABLE HER.