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Throw away your current barbaric programming language! Programming Emoji is the future of computation.

Aug 21, 2017

Computers, Design, UI / UX

APL, ELSE, IF ELSE, infinite loop, oroborous, perl, Perl 6, programming emoji, programming language, programming symbols, python, snake eating its own tail, ssssssssss, while true

Background: Essentially all major programming languages exclusively use keywords written in English. (For a couple of exceptions, see the addendum at the end.) But this doesn’t have to be the case! Proposal: By using symbols instead of words, we can convey a concept both more concisely and more easily across languages. See below for a…
How to destroy a programming language (or natural language?) that you don’t like in one easy step with three difficult sub-steps

Nov 3, 2014

Culture

destroy, esperanto, Language, perl, programming, python

The issue: Sometimes, you don’t like a programming language (like Perl or Python), or a natural language (like English or Spanish). You might have your reasons, or maybe not—maybe you just want to destroy it completely for no reason at all! Proposal: Here’s a simple way to go about wreaking destruction on the language…