And one more for you code...CATZ.

[Lenny]

Can anyone tell me what this does:

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?
VISIBLE "HAI WURLD!"
KTHXBYE

How about this:

BOTH SAEM ANIMAL AN "CAT"
O RLY?
  YA RLY, VISIBLE "J00 HAV A CAT"
  MEBBE BOTH SAEM ANIMAL AN "MAUS"
    VISIBLE "NOM NOM NOM. I EATED IT."
OIC

No?

Exhibit A is (boviously) "Hello World!" in this different language, and Exhibit B is an example of an IF conditional (O RLY? YA RLY, NO WAI, MEBBE, OIC == if, true, false, elseif, endif.

The language is LOLCODE - a higher level language based extremely loosely on C/C++, written in LOL, and in ALL CAPS (apart from variables... though they can be a mixture of any case), because CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL.

http://lolcode.com/specs/1.2

LOLCODE, which is obviously inspired by the LOLCAT meme, has been around for a couple of years, and is currently in the finalisation stages of v1.3 (has been for a couple of years, actually - the forum is still seeing lots of discussions about various things to implement, like variable scopes using I and ME, arrays with BUKKITS, and various different thises and thats).

It just goes to show that you can turn anything into a workable programming language (part of my course next year involves creating my own compilers! I can't wait. )! I'm half-tempted to try and define various data structures in LOLCODE when I've got some spare time (I've been spending the last few days building lists and trees in Java because I realised that, for a CS student, I had a terrifying lack of code examples! Time to build up my library of code, methinks!).

[Leisha]

O RLY?
YA RLY, VISIBLE "J00 HAV A CAT"
MEBBE BOTH SAEM ANIMAL AN "MAUS"
VISIBLE "NOM NOM NOM. I EATED IT."
OIC

LOL! LOL! LOL!

OMG, absolutely brilliant! I never knew this existed. I wonder if anyone's made an Actionscript version? I wish Adobe would.

[Ursa major]

I'm guessing that LOLCODE has support for the creation of cookies....

[Leisha]

Cookies or cat biscuits? Mmmmmm.... cat biscuits. Not as nice as white chocolate hamster drops, though.....


Hello, Ursa! 'Tis wonderful to see you again. When you go away for a while, you realise who are the most missable. You're one of them, as are a fair few of you.

This place is too nice!

[Lenny]

As a follow up (though I'm a few months late to the party), lolSQL:

HAI!
I'M IN UR `table`
SELECTIN UR `column` AZ `label`
I CAN HAZ `column` LIEK `value`
GIMMEH 5
MAKES ORDER `column` GOAS DOWN
KTHNXBYE

HAI!
OH NOES I HAZ LOST `table`
KTHNXBYE

HAI!
I IZ MAKIN U `table`
KTHNXBYE

Exhibit A is a query, getting columns from tables with a value similar to 'value', and putting the results into descending order.

Exhibit B is DROP table, and Exhibit C is CREATE table.

I can haz lolSQL? – Aaron Bassett

We did parsers quite recently - if I get time over Christmas, I might try my hand at it.

[Ursa major]

...in order to prove that you have a parser's nose...










...and not a complete turkey.