Discuss ideas for new programming languages

red_king_cyclops

At the moment, there more than enough programming languages out there for us to use, so coming up with a new programming language can be seen as unimportant or redundant. But still, it's easy and fun to come with new ideas and it's hard to get rid of them. So here you can discuss ideas for new programming languages.

At least one new Scratch-like programming language idea should be discussed, so this topic can stay in the Advanced Topics.

2+2=4
2*2=4
2^2=4
2^^2=4
2^^^2=4
2^^^^2=4
…
I see a pattern.

_nix

How about a programming language where code is written on the faces of an octahedron?

Okay, that's silly, but it's still something to think about

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CatIsFluffy

Too small. Only 8 units of code can barely do anything (you can barely do an infinite loop in Javascript in 8 chars)

red_king_cyclops

CatIsFluffy wrote:
Too small. Only 8 units of code can barely do anything (you can barely do an infinite loop in Javascript in 8 chars)

What if the programming language used all the Unicode characters? 8 meaningful bytes of code could look like this:

⍎'⎕',∊N⍴

2+2=4
2*2=4
2^2=4
2^^2=4
2^^^2=4
2^^^^2=4
…
I see a pattern.

CatIsFluffy

That's still only about 26 ASCII characters.

Zatnik

Depending on how you interpret “on the faces of an octahedron”, you could have more than 8 characters. I don't think there's any reason it has to be one character per face, so you could make it so that the octahedron can be made arbitrarily large to fit an arbitrarily large amount of code on each face. (Of course, then you might want to think about how to make the octahedron actually matter, so that people couldn't just put all the code on one face….)

Or, though this is a slight stretch from the original idea, something else that could be interesting is having only one character per face, but allowing multiple octahedrons and giving them some syntactic meaning.

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TheMonsterOfTheDeep

Maybe ya'll should look at Hexagony

my latest extension: 2d vector math

-ShadowOfTheFuture-

A programming language in Russian.

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 █████████     █████  █████     █████████

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TheAdriCoolManDude

A programming language that is half block-half text.

Wettining

TheAdriCoolManDude wrote:
A programming language that is half block-half text.

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1a3c5e7g9i

A programming language that works like a platformer.
Pseudocode.:

// top here
//This code saves "Hello World" to variable 's' after jumping over a unit block.

>   ^               "Hello World!"@s
------               ---------------------------
/* ^       ^^                    ^
block 1  block2              block 3
*/

Last edited by 1a3c5e7g9i (Sept. 9, 2018 06:00:39)

Wao how is that possible

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TheUltimatum

1a3c5e7g9i wrote:

A programming language that works like a platformer.
Pseudocode.:

// top here
//This code saves "Hello World" to variable 's' after jumping over a unit block.

>   ^               "Hello World!"@s
------               ---------------------------
/* ^       ^^                    ^
block 1  block2              block 3
*/

There is already such a programming language! https://esolangs.org/wiki/MarioLANG

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rdococ

A programming language written on the hyperbolic plane.

Good luck trying to visualize it.

The royal blue colour scheme. Be aesthetic

-ShadowOfTheFuture-

A programming language that automatically encrypts itself with every change you make, using a different algorithm each time.

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██       ██  ██            ██  ██       ██
██       ██  ██     ██     ██  ██       ██
██       ██  ██     ██     ██  ██       ██
███     ███   ██   ████   ██   ███     ███
 █████████     █████  █████     █████████

“Though the seasons come and go, and sunshine turns to snow, we will always have tomorrow up ahead.”

herohamp

TheUltimatum wrote:
1a3c5e7g9i wrote:
A programming language that works like a platformer.
Pseudocode.:
// top here
//This code saves "Hello World" to variable 's' after jumping over a unit block.

>   ^               "Hello World!"@s
------               ---------------------------
/* ^       ^^                    ^
block 1  block2              block 3
*/
There is already such a programming language! https://esolangs.org/wiki/MarioLANG

I might try to build a MARIOlang type interpreter in Scratch

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CatsUnited

A programming language written in morse code

Oh and if you need to add a symbol such as (, you have to type out “open parentheses” in morse code

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frodewin

What about a programming language using Egyptian hieroglyphs? I googled the topic before because I was almost sure somebody would have done that already, was disappointed by the Internet.

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bybb

frodewin wrote:
What about a programming language using Egyptian hieroglyphs? I googled the topic before because I was almost sure somebody would have done that already, was disappointed by the Internet.

That wouldn't really work unless you learnt middle Egyptian.

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frodewin wrote:
What about a programming language using Egyptian hieroglyphs? I googled the topic before because I was almost sure somebody would have done that already, was disappointed by the Internet.

How about a programming language where you draw pictures for different functions
like a drawing of a christmas tree will add the next variable to the variable after that
boxes and pots and pans are variables
tools execute commands
and best of all, it's like google quick-draw where it only recognizes the correct thing one time out of ten

Wettining

--_Nova_-- wrote:
frodewin wrote:
What about a programming language using Egyptian hieroglyphs? I googled the topic before because I was almost sure somebody would have done that already, was disappointed by the Internet.
How about a programming language where you draw pictures for different functions
like a drawing of a christmas tree will add the next variable to the variable after that
boxes and pots and pans are variables
tools execute commands
and best of all, it's like google quick-draw where it only recognizes the correct thing one time out of ten

So kind of like Piet?

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