The English Esoteric Programming Language
27 points by LordRatte 6 days ago | 8 comments
  • ndsipa_pomu 14 hours ago |
    I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.
    • superfish 14 hours ago |
      It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".
    • FranchuFranchu 13 hours ago |
      Legalese is just obfuscated English
      • fuzztester 13 hours ago |
        MBAese too.

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

        Google MBA Speak generator.

    • SkiFire13 13 hours ago |
      I think that's called poetry
  • olooney 13 hours ago |
    I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month:

    https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen

    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.

  • tromp 13 hours 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...

  • johnisgood 12 hours 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