Eternal moral vigilance is no laughing matter.
December 10, 2013 8:53 AM Subscribe
The PLT Games are a monthly programming language competition. At the beginning of every month, a new theme is picked and developers begin work on a language that they think best fits the theme. At the end of every month, developers submit their projects and entries are submitted during the next month.
So far, they've had competitions based on Turing Tarpits, Automated Testing, and Gamification, leading to gems like Vigil, Cyprus, and Grinder
A full list of competitions can be found here. Unfortunately, it looks like interest in these competitions died off after the third competition or so.
So far, they've had competitions based on Turing Tarpits, Automated Testing, and Gamification, leading to gems like Vigil, Cyprus, and Grinder
A full list of competitions can be found here. Unfortunately, it looks like interest in these competitions died off after the third competition or so.
Heehee. At first I thought this was Yet Another Set Of Problems To Help You Learn A Programming Language. But no, entries aren't programs written in a language, but entire languages. I look forward to reading these, probably with a mix of pleasure and pain. Thanks.
posted by benito.strauss at 10:09 AM on December 10, 2013
posted by benito.strauss at 10:09 AM on December 10, 2013
Grinder needs in-language hat purchases.
posted by benzenedream at 10:25 AM on December 10, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by benzenedream at 10:25 AM on December 10, 2013 [1 favorite]
Vigil was done by munificent, also the creator of Magpie, now on the Dart team.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 11:28 AM on December 10, 2013
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 11:28 AM on December 10, 2013
Cyprus is a Turing complete language, though using it for anything other than fun and experimentation would be insane.
The same can be said for most languages in everyday use!
One day - when the difference between a feature and a bug is finally understood - the techno-archaeologists of the future will shake their heads, roll their eyes, and laugh in wonder and amazement that we primitives ever managed to keep our squishy liquid masses of binary ooze working long enough to, briefly, emulate sanity.
Then they'll have long, long conferences trying to decide how to identify the computing Sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans. And line up for the primo swag: battery-powered (!!) Kurzweil bobblehead hula dolls playing real MIDI music.
posted by Twang at 8:33 PM on December 10, 2013
The same can be said for most languages in everyday use!
One day - when the difference between a feature and a bug is finally understood - the techno-archaeologists of the future will shake their heads, roll their eyes, and laugh in wonder and amazement that we primitives ever managed to keep our squishy liquid masses of binary ooze working long enough to, briefly, emulate sanity.
Then they'll have long, long conferences trying to decide how to identify the computing Sapiens, Neanderthals, Denisovans. And line up for the primo swag: battery-powered (!!) Kurzweil bobblehead hula dolls playing real MIDI music.
posted by Twang at 8:33 PM on December 10, 2013
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