COW: Programming language for bovines

Thorin · December 04, 2012, 10:50:41 AM

No, really, a programming language for bovines: http://www.bigzaphod.org/cow/

Written so that any cow can code (they only know one word, so it's got variations of that word as instructions)

Mr. Analog · December 04, 2012, 10:56:17 AM

It's about time they caught up with the Buffalo...

Darren Dirt · December 05, 2012, 11:31:06 PM

esoteric programming languages are esoteric.

and hey on that note, why not give this one a Whirl!
http://www.bigzaphod.org/whirl/kang-99.html

"The Whirl programming language has only two instructions: 0 and 1. While the Whirl Team was tempted to build a compiler that converted text source files of 0s and 1s into very small binary files with a sequence of 0/1 bits, the idea was thwarted at the last minute by a sudden attack of laziness. Maybe it'll happen later on when Whirl becomes adopted by the enterprise market to replace the aging Java platform." <-- the only language where beer makes you a better programmer?

Thorin · December 06, 2012, 09:49:40 AM

Quote from: Darren Dirt on December 05, 2012, 11:31:06 PM
"[..] the aging Java platform." <-- the only language where beer makes you a better programmer?

No matter what the language, beer makes you a better programmer in it. Well, depending on how much beer you've had... http://xkcd.com/323/

Mr. Analog · December 06, 2012, 09:52:58 AM

Beer-powered competency seems to be on a bell curve though

Not that I'm speaking from experience or anything

...of course practise makes perfect too...

Darren Dirt · December 06, 2012, 10:00:05 AM

Quote from: Mr. Analog on December 06, 2012, 09:52:58 AM
Beer-powered competency seems to be on a bell curve though

should be called The Hemingway Theorem ... apparently he'd get slightly sloshed and write brilliantly, but if sober or drunk he couldn't write at all.

Mr. Analog · December 06, 2012, 10:08:33 AM

Hah, that's pretty apt

Darren Dirt · January 09, 2019, 03:01:19 PM

I could not find the previous "Top Programming Languages of 20xx" that I *know* is on RW somewhere.

So... replying to this instead. Because cows.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/programming-language-of-the-year-python-is-standout-in-latest-rankings/

"The top 20 languages in descending order for January 2019 were Java, C, Python, C++, Visual Basic .NET, JavaScript, C#, PHP, SQL, Objective-C, MATLAB, R, Perl, Assembly language, Swift, Go, Delphi/Object Pascal, Ruby, PL/SQL, and Visual Basic."

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