"Mainly because if we make Rockstar a real (and completely pointless) programming language, then recruiters and hiring managers won't be able to talk about 'rockstar developers' any more"
Hahahahaha I love you for this.
Easiest path to becoming a certified Rockstar developer.
This is so we'll thought out and hilarious. You've earned my number one spot for best esoteric programming language. It used to be Chef where the programs make recipes and someone made a program that output hello world but actually was real instructions for baking a cake. They then baked the cake. But this? Oh the sky is the limit with this !
The phrase "that's so crazy it just might work", is very rarely true, but if we actually got behind this and spread the news, we might actually be able to annoy HR and management enough to purge "rock star" from dev job postings.
> Mainly because if we make Rockstar a real (and completely pointless) programming language, then recruiters and hiring managers won't be able to talk about 'rockstar developers' any more.
> Also 'cos it's kinda fun and any language based on the idea of compiling Meatloaf lyrics has to be worth a look, right?
> Also we can make stickers. Who doesn't want a sticker on their laptop saying 'CERTIFIED ROCKSTAR DEVELOPER'?
They had me at the recruiters point. And honestly I've heard a lot worse reasons for more serious languages.
It's hackish and hard to read and full of bugs, but it can run FizzBuzz, so Rockstar is a real language now. If the pull request gets accepted I'll add "certified Rockstar developer" to my CV.
this reminds me of when I was learning to write fortran code for the navy around 1990. My rookie debugging method was to insert print statements throughout the code, but instead of printing something informational I would put 80s song lyrics. When I ran the program (which calculated fluid flow around submarines), it would print the lyrics to a song. Wherever the song stopped was where my code was failing.
Years ago I worked on an ecommerce website that followed the "idiomatic variable names" recommendation. All (I mean literally all) the variables were called things like 'gunsandroses', 'meatloaf' etc. I don't know if they did it that way in the first place for shits and giggles or if they did an obfuscation pass at the end, but I didn't find that it assisted maintainability.
At highschool went through a phase of naming them after fish. It started as a joke but quickly because an obsession. But after a few months even I found it impossible to maintain and this was just personal highschool projects. I can't imagine trying to maintain larger and more complex code bases which have been developed by a team of people.
Awesome! FizzBuzz example in idiomatic Rockstar from the repo:
Midnight takes your heart and your soul
While your heart is as high as your soul
Put your heart without your soul into your heart
Give back your heart
Desire is a lovestruck ladykiller
My world is nothing
Fire is ice
Hate is water
Until my world is Desire,
Build my world up
If Midnight taking my world, Fire is nothing and Midnight taking my world, Hate is nothing
Shout "FizzBuzz!"
Take it to the top
If Midnight taking my world, Fire is nothing
Shout "Fizz!"
Take it to the top
If Midnight taking my world, Hate is nothing
Say "Buzz!"
Take it to the top
Whisper my world
This is epic. Time to write a hello world and update LinkedIn. "Genuine Rockstar Developer, 2018-". Please make and sell the laptop stickers. I'll buy a dozen.
Sadly this isn’t implemented yet; it’s going to take a real rockstar developer to build a formal grammar, parser and runtime (I imagine the easiest thing to do will be to map the language onto e.g. JavaScript, much like what TypeScript does).
The language has some conceptual similarities with Shakespeare, for instance; Shakespeare also has a poetic way to specify numbers based on adjectives with positive and negative sentiment. Shakespeare is fully implemented and used occasionally for comedic effect in programming contests; see http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/report/shakespeare/sh... for a rundown of the actual language.
Here is my attempt to create (compose?) Fibonacci(25):
Tommy was a kindle
Jane was gasoline
Put Tommy over Jane into the fire
Put the fire into the daydream
Knock the daydream down
away takes time
If time is nothing
Give back time
The nightmare was over
Build the nightmare up
If time is the nightmare
Give back time
Put time without the nightmare into my world
Put time without the fire into yours
Put away taking my world into the daylight
Put away taking yours into the night
Give back the daylight with the night
Put the daydream into my love
ever is so rock
Until my love is stronger than ever
Put away taking my love into the night
Whisper the night
Build my love up
Hahahahaha I love you for this.
Easiest path to becoming a certified Rockstar developer.
This is so we'll thought out and hilarious. You've earned my number one spot for best esoteric programming language. It used to be Chef where the programs make recipes and someone made a program that output hello world but actually was real instructions for baking a cake. They then baked the cake. But this? Oh the sky is the limit with this !