A roguelike programming language: Metacompiler generates a random programming language and an interpreter that you may run exactly once
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the idea of a "random programming language" is neat to think about. How would you generate random yet meaningful semantics?
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Was a Strangeloop talk on random syntax, though not random semantics. Latter’s very interesting! delivery.acm.org/10.1145/209000
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it's a really interesting question tot hink about. i think it should be SORTA possible.
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i mean really think about how many language designs are really just pulling pre-existing elements from a hat.
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a thing that struck me designing emily was how many decisions i made that were like…
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"well, i could do it this way, or i could do it this way". and it Did Not Matter. I just did not care.
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But I had this awareness this totally arbitrary choice I was making would mean either convenience or wild irritation
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…for some random person under very specific circumstances i couldn't anticipate years from now were the language used
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Yes, absolutely. Andreas talks about empirical studies on language design choices here: youtube.com/watch?v=uEFrE6