Tabloid is a real, turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
  • squaresinger@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 hours ago

    Is it only me or is the same old joke-esolang thing getting boring? They all read exactly the same, just with the keywords replaced by some other random string.

    No, this doesn’t read like tabloid headlines. It uses similar words, but nobody would mistake it for tabloid headlines. Same as the other esolang doesn’t read like Shakespeare.

    Maybe I am also just getting old and thus I’ve heard this joke too many times.

    • tyler@programming.dev
      5·
      3 hours ago

      We need people to build joke languages because it’s essentially the next generation of language designer. They’re learning how to write a language and can work on getting better and better at it. A joke language has no reasonable expectation of being maintained. It’s essentially a throwaway open source project showing off your skills. A portfolio project.

      • jasory@programming.dev
        1·
        3 hours ago

        If what the original commenter said is true about simply replacing keywords with another string, then it’s questionable if they are actually learning anything about language design or demonstrating skill.

        • el_abuelo@programming.dev
          3·
          2 hours ago

          My first foray into doing anything remotely close to programming was substituting things in other people’s TCL scripts. I had no idea what I was doing…but i was somehow getting results.

          I curently have no idea how this person did this, and so as a bare minimum id have to learn that in order to know where to start replacing keywords. Maybe it’s completely trivial, but the fact remains I do not know and so I would have to learn something.

          So yes, even if they’re “just replacing keywords” they’re still learning something. Even if you consider it trivial or mundane.

  • dan@upvote.au
    71·
    20 hours ago

    Seems like BASIC but with different keywords :D

    I like this part of the readme:

    How to use

    Please don’t.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    90·
    22 hours ago

    “Everything printed by Tabloid is automatically capitalized, and an exclamation point is added. Why would you want anything else?”

    Finally an opinionated programming language with the right priorities.

    • Feddinat0r@feddit.org
      14·
      21 hours ago

      Well,

      thats exactly abap how you wrote it earlyer.

      I prefer writing everything small, but they used to wirte everything capatalized by standard