I'm Bored

Hobbes

Any new languages out worth looking at?

deRanged

you're bored? do a PhD - that'll cure the boredom.


what languages have you done so far?

Silent Bob

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/

Talliesin

There have been at least a dozen languages called D

<http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq.html#called-C++>

Syth

Learn one of those wierd programming languages, the ones that have no practical applications and you'd be mad to use if you wanted it to be easy/fast/etc. That should cure your boredom.

damnyanks

Voice XML and the whole voice vandoogle ?

Silent Bob

Originally posted by Syth
Learn one of those wierd programming languages, the ones that have no practical applications and you'd be mad to use if you wanted it to be easy/fast/etc. That should cure your boredom.

how about something like whitespace

DeadBankClerk

Learn Eiffel?

scojones

BrainF*** that'll cure your boredum

Typedef

perl

WizZard

Rubix Cube ?

ai ing

Pub

Fi_C**

you can do my data mining project i ya like!!;)

Syth

Or you could try to invent your own programming language. That should take a while...

damnyanks

How do you go about doing that ?

Syth

How do you go about doing that ?

(Assuming you're talking about making up a language)
Not really sure. You'd have to plan it out a bit. The hardest part would be writing the compiler that would convert your source code into machine code. You'd need to know machine code (yay! fun fun fun!).

Or you could just write an interpretor. That'd be easier. I've written a Brainfúck and Turing machine interpreator in Java, wasn't too hard. It'd be easier writing a low level language interpreator, than high level. Of course if you wanted to write a language that someone would actuall use, as opposed something someone'd be interested in just for the laugh, than you'd have to have objects and loads of stuff. Just make up an interesting language.

Silent Bob

The hardest part isn't writing the compiler. There are loads of well known algorithms* and so on for reducing code etc.

The hardest part is the actual grammar design.

*not to forget yacc and lex

yossarin

how about a language used to describe porn scenes.
in years to come it could be used by struggling directors to build digital features.

actually, I like the idea of a custom language or other framework to abstract away the annoying aspects of doing somthing. sounds like a boards.ie (TM) project.

would voice XML for boards be a stupid idea ?

monk

if your a real machoist you could try to create an avi to ascii movie generator in perl.net running on Mono

i'd say that could eat a couple of hours every evening