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Why isn't LOLCODE more popular? [A few possible reasons] [1] I can think of:

* The benefits it offers over C++ are (or were) not significant enough to make people invest in the switch

* Library availability lacked compared with C++

* It is unsure whether there is "Garbage Collection", and whether it is optional.

* It's not backed by a big name - and our industry is obsessed with big names.

* Perhaps a lack of literature and interest by academic institutions to teach it.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692230

Also, memes such as "can has <xxx>" are considered passé now.

and whitespace ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_langu... ) - and it was developed by Chris Morris ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Morris_%28satirist%29 )

I suspect, though I could be wrong, that the Chris Morris who worked on Whitespace at Durham is this guy - https://www.dur.ac.uk/cis/about/person/?id=4018 and is not the famous comedian, though I personally have never seen them in the same room at the same time.

you could well be right. infact, i'll go as far as saying you are right. i learned something today.

I have a friend that did a whitespace compiler for .NET a couple of years ago[0].

I think I remember him saying that he even received bug reports from some guys at some point !

[0] http://spacesharp.batard.info/

Did I miss something? It's not developed by Chris Morris...

> The language was created in 2007 by Adam Lindsay, researcher at the Computing Department of Lancaster University

I was talking about whitespace, and I was wrong, it's a different Chris Morris :(

Brainfuck was a thing too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

Many of you reading this may have overheard (or participated in) a conversation like this while studying CS or something related:

"Hey, so what language did you use for the assignment?"

"...Java. I don't know. I was going to use C but I don't care, I just wanted to be done with it, you know?"

"Yeah but the assignment LITERALLY said you could use ANY programming language as long as the guy can execute your code, right?"

"Okay? So?"

"You know what Steve did? He wrote it in BRAINFUCK. HAHAHAHA."

"Whaaat? Haha!"

"You know what BRAINFUCK is?"

"Uh... no, what? Haha."

"It's like this... like a two-dimensional Turing machine or something and only uses special characters and it's almost impossible to read! But it's a Turing machine so it can do everything any other programming language can do!"

"And it's literally called Brain-Fuck?!? Hahaha!"

"Yeah! Hahaha I wish I could have seen the look on the guys face who had to execute and test it but you know they said any programming language is okay so they totally have to do it!"

"Haha yeah Steve always does shit like this!"

In my CS assignments I couldn't choose the languages.

The only thing was the seminar "current programming languages" where everyone had to do a talk about a language of his choice. I did "The Shakespeare Programming Language".

Yeah, Steve was crazy in college. Wonder what he's up to now...

Unary: convert Brainfuck programs to unary number system source code.

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Unary

I see brainfuck all the time over at http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/

It's... weird.

Brainfuck is kinda cool because it provides such a minimal language with which to practice writing interpreters and even compilers (or a JIT, as with RPython). But it's kinda uncool because of the name and its obtuse syntax.. so anyone know of a similarly minimal language that's more readable?

But is there a framework?

Be sure to check out http://lolcode.codeschool.com for a great tutorial on your way to mastering LOLCODE.

Don't forget trollscript as well then :-) https://github.com/tombell/trollscript

Haha I wrote a (partially complete) compiler and virtual machine for it a number of years ago. I'll have to dig it up.

Might I say though, the project has improved greatly since I last came across it.

can I has > import

awsum thx

LOL. I remember when this was a "thing".

I remember when OpenBSD decided to add it to their kernel. http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130401070038

Yes, I know, shhh.

April Fools.

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