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The English Esoteric Programming Language

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.

a day agoolooney

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

21 hours agojohnisgood

> 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...

a day agotromp

I'd like to see an obfuscation contest for this.

a day agondsipa_pomu

I think that's called poetry

a day agoSkiFire13

It'd be fun to play code golf too. It's probably highly dependent on the niceness of the "English compiler".

a day agosuperfish

Legalese is just obfuscated English

a day agoFranchuFranchu

MBAese too.

e.g. "at this point in time" for "now" or "right now"

Google MBA Speak generator.