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Re:Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language by bfung on Saturday February 01, 2020 @09:10PM (#22214692)
It's more "art" than practical, but that's fine, I find it fun to read!

The equivalent in English is like if someone wrote a programming language with Shakespearean english syntax and keywords:

    I have a function, thou named "mandelbrot".
etc =)
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Re:Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language by jerf on Saturday February 01, 2020 @11:04PM (#22215068)
http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/sh...

Arguably a bit more subtle than your sample code.

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Re:Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language by billfruit on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:18AM (#22216025)
Very impressive, in that it is not mere transcription of terms used by Shakespeare into keywords, but it organizes the whole program as a drama.
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Re:Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language by c3534l on Sunday February 02, 2020 @04:55AM (#22216138)
That is way better than I thought it would be from other esolangs I've seen.
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Re:Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language by jerf on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:36AM (#22225028)
There's certainly a lot of dross out there that's just search & replace glosses of some other language or a respelling of Brainfuck, but there are some gems out there. Search for "piet language" for another example of something genuinely interesting.
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Re:Wenyan-lang: Classical Chinese Programming Language by trevyn on Sunday February 02, 2020 @12:54AM (#22215400)
Nice. Is there a longer Hello World anywhere?
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