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The English Esoteric Programming Language

by LordRatte on 11/19/24, 10:11 AM with 8 comments

• by olooney on 11/24/24, 3:49 PM

  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.

• by johnisgood on 11/24/24, 4:57 PM

  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

• by tromp on 11/24/24, 4:20 PM

  > 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...

• by ndsipa_pomu on 11/24/24, 3:32 PM

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