LOLPython

http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2007/06/01/lolpython.html

by roder • 17 years ago

33 17 17 years ago

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jpeterson• 17 years ago

Maybe I'm just too old to get this, but why would someone waste their time on this nonsense?

run4yourlives2• 17 years ago

In the same vain, I wish I actually had the time to waste on such nonsense.

sundeep• 17 years ago

> In the same vain

I think you meant "in the same vein" ... :)

cpach• 17 years ago

Isn't that obvious?

icey2• 17 years ago

Not everyone has the line between "can" and "should" drawn in the same place.

sophacles• 17 years ago

Aren't they the same line?

scott_s2• 17 years ago

Probably because he had fun implementing it.

rogeriopvl• 17 years ago

Although it's funny, I think it's a waste of time and talent.

electronslave3• 17 years ago

It's someone making an alternate grammar for the Python VM. There's no waste in a learning exercise, even though the (juvenile, topical) humor may have dated itself.

Note to self: in order to not piss off HN readers, make a tutorial/postmortem at the end of the project.

thorax• 17 years ago

It is actually a kind of interesting stack-based grammar. Silly keywords aside I kind of liked learning about how it works and adding new keywords to it.

The fun part is picking really good variable names that make it even more obfuscated to people who don't recognize it. If you don't find it slightly fun, you may not like the IOCCC either.

Some character even got it working for Counter-Strike: Source addons: http://forums.eventscripts.com/viewtopic.php?t=27349

electronslave3• 17 years ago

I remember porting my MapReduce clone to LOLPython. Three conditions had to exist in order for this to happen: 1) I was in a former cattle weighing town-turned-gambling nexus in northern New South Wales, 2) I was going to be there for 2 months, and 3) I was very, very drunk.

I think there exists a whole set of sub-explanations for each, but it shall suffice that severance pay, boredom and intoxication produce strange things.

dryicerx• 17 years ago

I guess intergrating this with LOLCode feeds will be a breeze

http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=36...

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