Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every...
by benhoyt on Sunday July 01, 2007 @04:06PM
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ZZT-OOP! Oh, the nostalgia. That was awesome. Well, not the language. Not the IDE. But the whole idea of a game having a built-in programming language. Was it the first of its kind? (Then again, in 1991, I don't suppose it was.)
JFYI, FORTH is now usually written Forth. (Like LISP is now normally written Lisp.)
Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every...
by cperciva on Saturday June 30, 2007 @02:14AM
(#31704)
Off the top of my head:
Ada, BCPL, C, Delphi, Erlang, Fortran, Godel, Haskell, Intercal, Java, K (if hypothetical languages count? This is a project by some FreeBSD developers to produce a more powerful version of C designed for kernel programming), Logo, Maple, N??, Occam, Pascal, Q??, Ratfor, Sed, TeX, U??, Visual Basic (if this counts as a language in itself rather than as a version of BASIC), Whitespace, X??, Yorick, Z??
I guess that's 19-21 out of 26, depending on the exact rules.
Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every...
by fallintothis on Saturday June 30, 2007 @08:39PM
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Paul Graham has most of the work done for me: http://paulgraham.com/lisps.html
He has A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, V, and X - though I certainly can name some dialects of the same letters which are not listed. Not going to really bother on that one, though.
(I tried to pick different PLs than russ if I could think of one, though I admit I didn't know of Yorick or Z++)
JFYI, FORTH is now usually written Forth. (Like LISP is now normally written Lisp.)
I'm guessing Trevor and rtm could manage about half the alphabet. pg, not a chance, he's too much of a language bigot.
I'd be lucky to get through maybe five without consulting a reference of some sort.
(Being a language bigot doesn't constrain you too much if your favorite language is a language-family.)
Once again, age and guile beats (relative) youth, innocence, and a bad haircut.
Of course, in the reply page, it's still showing up as "Touché".
Seriously, they're all real single-letter languages (Google for "[letter] programming language" and wade through the results).
I knew of only about 5 of them already (B, C, D, E, K). I couldn't find real languages for H, I, O or X.
Python, PHP, Perl, PostScript, PDF, Pascal, Pict, Pike, PL/1, Prolog.
Don't you love IBM... Programming Language 1... Operating System 2...
A: Ada, B: B, C: C, D: D, E: Erlang, F: Forth, G: Gwbasic, H: Haskell, I: Io, L: Lisp, M: Miranda, N: Newtop Script, O: OCaml, P: Perl, Q: Qbasic, R: Ruby, S: Scheme, T: Tcl, U: ?, V: Visualbasic, Z: ?, X: ?, Y: Yacc, W: ?, K: ?
I guess that's 19-21 out of 26, depending on the exact rules.
(If not, new challenge: lisp dialect for every letter of the alphabet.)
This leaves H, Q, R, T, U, W, Y, and Z, of which I can supply Qi ( http://www.lambdassociates.org/ ) and T ( http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/ ). Bringing the list of unnamed (for me) to:
H, R, U, W, Y, Z.
That's the best I can do. Anyone else?
Q is easy - QuickBasic, under the same theory as V.
Whitespace - good call! We couldn't think of a W.
(Don't ask me where I got my info)
Keith Packard has been working on it for a while...