Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by josephg on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:07PM
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I agree. Why should I care that this exists? Does it correct a flaw in zig / rust / C / Nim / Dmd? Does it explore the space of programming languages? (And if so, what’s actually new about it?). Or is it a way for the author to noodle around with their own programming language?
I have no objection to any of those goals. But it would be nice if the author were clear about what they’re doing with the project.
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by fluidcruft on Thursday February 08, 2024 @11:52AM
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The top left corner gives the hint "A modern C-like Programming language with focus on structural typing." Not sure what "coding like royalty" is meant to mean honestly. To me royalty conjures useless rent-seeking incompetent cruft that sits on their ass and extracts value from their subjects.
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by rob74 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:09PM
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When I read "coding like royalty", the first thing I thought of was "let others do the coding for you". But in that case, you wouldn't care about the programming language...
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by 082349872349872 on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:56PM
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If this language is "coding like royalty", does that make no-code systems "coding for the cream of society"? (because they're aimed at the rich and thick)
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by ysofunny on Thursday February 08, 2024 @12:14PM
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I'd be interested in a joke programming language that mimics the modern tone and language used by living royals to order food or ask for trips in their private travel infrastructure and so on.
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by pjungwir on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:14PM
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Not exactly what you asked for, but you should look up Chef (not the devops tool). It was part of an MIT Mystery Hunt one year. You could certainly write the recipes with a royal style.
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by trealira on Thursday February 08, 2024 @03:40PM
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I tried thinking of a programming language syntax that sounded like Elizabethan English, but I think I only succeeded in making a weirder version of COBOL or ALGOL.
Re:Princess: Coding Like Royalty
by countWSS on Thursday February 08, 2024 @01:10PM
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Some notes(might be controversial):
1.Princess will clash with lots of stuff,
e.g. anime and fiction, making it harder to
search code. Pick something more unique,
even any princess name would be better and
not lead to wrong associations."Coding like ro
yalty" isn't that great of a slogan either.
2.Make a comparison table
to showcase differences Princess/C/C++/Zig/Rust/FreePascal
its hard to understand the selling point
compared to using plain Clang.
3.More examples of functions,objects, metaprogramming,
common algorithms to showcase something
(Rosetta Code examples would be perfect).
I have no objection to any of those goals. But it would be nice if the author were clear about what they’re doing with the project.
C, but the headers have all been removed.
the closest thing to what I had in mind, thanks to another reply, is british PHP
Edit: moved to pastebin here: https://pastebin.com/41irVBJs
2.Make a comparison table to showcase differences Princess/C/C++/Zig/Rust/FreePascal its hard to understand the selling point compared to using plain Clang.
3.More examples of functions,objects, metaprogramming, common algorithms to showcase something (Rosetta Code examples would be perfect).
4. Explain what problem is being solved. Why does this exist at all? What is the value proposition?
A comparison table helps of course but I wouldn’t even look at that unless I can “buy” the value proposition first.