Fat Dactyls

Posted by esoprogramming on Thursday July 15, 2021 @06:07AM
from the esoteric.codes dept.

https://esoteric.codes/blog/fat-dactyls

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Re:Fat Dactyls by Sleepytime on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:59PM (#27863468)

If this kind of thing interests people, the esoteric languages wiki is worth losing some time to.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

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Re:Fat Dactyls by esoprogramming on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:39PM (#27868665)

And also the other posts on esoteric.codes itself, covering esolangs and code art

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Re:Fat Dactyls by DylanDmitri on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:23PM (#27862896)

I've been thinking about a programming language where parts of speech are flexible, so if you define a "square" function you could write both "square 3" and "3 squared".

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Re:Fat Dactyls by bmn__ on Saturday July 17, 2021 @02:41AM (#27863950)

Already taken to its logical conclusion: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Perligata

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Re:Fat Dactyls by ampdepolymerase on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:07AM (#27863489)

Try some of the DSLs for quantum computers. You basically want all of your operators to be commutative.

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Re:Fat Dactyls by gumby on Friday July 16, 2021 @11:44PM (#27863421)

Have your read “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” by R. A. Lafferty?

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Re:Fat Dactyls by itronitron on Saturday July 17, 2021 @12:52AM (#27863597)

i was expecting to read about obese flying dinosaurs

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Re:Fat Dactyls by bmn__ on Saturday July 17, 2021 @02:34AM (#27863934)

Daktylos just means finger.

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