| ▲ | The English Esoteric Programming Language(esolangs.org) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 28 points by LordRatte 6 days ago | 8 comments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | olooney a day ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I wrote an implementation of this programming language last month: https://github.com/olooney/fourth_gen It is a terrible, terrible idea, but it does work. It uses GPT-4 to read Python docstrings and magically implement working functions from English descriptions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | johnisgood a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lojban may be the only spoken language you could write a programming language in, a programmable spoken language... English, not so much due to its inherent limitations related to natural languages. :P | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | tromp a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> This program writes "Hello World" (without quotes) to the output. > This program outputs Hello World. So that alternative doesn't quite work for writing "its own source" without quotes... | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | ndsipa_pomu a day ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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