LOLCat programming language: LOLCode

Programmers have created a functional programming language based on the peculiar speech of LOLCats. Linguists may analyze the grammar of LOLCats, but hackers make it DO STUFF. From Nick's Blog: "LOLCode is an emerging esoteric (and hilarious) language based on the dialect used in LOLCats images. It's been siezed upon by a group of people (myself included, now), and is being expanded into a real, workable, turing complete esoteric language (though nobody has proven its turing completeness yet!). The LOLCode.NET compiler is now working, and as a nearly-free bonus for using the .NET platform, you can even debug it in Visual Studio." Link (Thanks, Adam!)

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rstevens

The LOLBOTS are crying cold, robotic tears of loneliness right now!
FredM

Isn’t it an imperative programing language, not a functional programing language?
Eduardo Padoan

Isn’t it an imperative programing language, not a functional programing language?
I think Cory was talking about the usefullness of the language, not about the Functional Paradigm :)
Phelyan

And here was me, cynical old bar steward, hoping the whole LOL* would die sooner rather than later…
tehmoth

interesting reading of the origins of ‘English’ there Teresa, lots of Angles and Anglo-Saxons.
Crankfetter

The command VISIBLE is not very LOLCAT. It isn’t even misspelled. How about:

SAYZ “HELO WRLD!!!!”

or SEZ or YELZ …
Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

Iz no angles in English, Tehmoth.
Dylan

@Jerril: Actually, visible is a print style statement: http://lolcode.com/keywords/visible.
Phelyan

#4: You’re not very familiar with the old cat macros, are you?

http://macrochan.org/search.py?tag=Neutral%3AInvisible%20X
Crankfetter

I should have known there was a reason …
kingkool68

When will there be a translator/converter like txt2lol.com out?
Joe

Yes, my guess is that Eduardo is correct, and Cory didn’t realize that “functional programming language” has a specific meaning other than “it works”.
tehmoth

there is nothing *cat about this, there are no images after all. its not even ‘lol’.
wotthe7734

angles. we has dem. dey iz in ur lolcat bibul bein all holies & stufz. dey can has teh wings & dey is in ur skyz hangin out wif Ceiling Cat & singin teh songs & stuffz. & sum tiemz dey flyz down 2 teh urths & scarez teh hel outta teh peepz so teh peeps can has believ in Ceiling Cat. & Ceiling Cat sez u is good peepz & u can has cheezburgrz & stuf.
Hamish Kuzminski

>>(though nobody has proven its turing completeness yet!)

I beg to differ. Proof follows:

IZ LOLCode TURING COMPLETE? YES IZ COS WE SAYS IT SO!
Jerril

Visible is not a “print” equivelent, it’s a variable declaration :D
deusdiabolus

It was inevitable.

http://www.loldjs.com/
Eduardo Padoan

This is not the first time LOLCat inpired PL to feature at BoingBoing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/05/29/lolcode-lolcats-meet.html
http://lolcode.com/

I prefer the Python implementation:
http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2007/06/01/lolpython.html