Yoda programming language

Yoda programming language

Trezker

Member #1,739

December 2001

I just set here programming and suddenly I inversed the order of a return so it became "x return;" instead of "return x;"

So the thought struck me that a Yoda programming language would be a fun addition to the likes of chef, shakespeare etc...

Of course I'm not the first guy to think of this. A microsoft emplyoee apparently took some time off blogging about getting this idea. But he didn't go very deep, and I would like to argue that his example sucks. http://blogs.msdn.com/mattwar/archive/2005/10/09/479008.aspx

So I'm wondering if the members of this community can do better.

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example make you must

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Matthew Leverton

Supreme Loser

January 1999

Perl seems to do everything backward to me. Maybe it is the Yoda language?

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Neil Black

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October 2006

I'm still waiting on the Chewbacca programming language:

BBWWAAAA!!!("Hello World");

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Thomas Fjellstrom

Member #476

June 2000

Quote:

Perl seems to do everything backward to me. Maybe it is the Yoda language?

I think you're thinking of Forth

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alethiophile

Member #9,349

December 2007

It wouldn't be hard to write a grammar alterer with lex/yacc that takes some-language-with-reversed-words and returns that-language-correct.

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Kibiz0r

Member #6,203

September 2005

But how would you do exception handling, since there is no try?

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Erikster

Member #9,510

February 2008

Kibiz0r said:

But how would you do exception handling, since there is no try?

Dang, beat me to it.

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Trezker

Member #1,739

December 2001

do?
{
    codestuff
}
did not(reason)
{
    speak(reason);
}

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Arthur Kalliokoski

Member #5,540

February 2005

Doesn't Polish notation (for calculators) fit the bill?

Otherwise, if this Yoda language took off, there wouldn't be a need for allegro.cc to aid beginners, since "There is no try, there is only do!"

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Cody Harris

Member #4,406

March 2004

Yoda does not need to worry about exceptions, his code is infallible.

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alethiophile

Member #9,349

December 2007

(do||!do)
!try

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ReyBrujo

Moderator

January 2001

Perl does something similar:

print "Hello World!" if ($test == 1);

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Thomas Fjellstrom

Member #476

June 2000

print "Hello World!\n" unless not $test;

ixilom

Member #7,167

April 2006

Neil Black said:

BBWWAAAA!!!("Hello World");

haha, that made me laugh and its only 9.30 am, good job

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Gr4|\|f

Member #9,499

February 2008

But luke, not ready are you.

if (!ready)
{
     throw(jedi['luke']);
}

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alethiophile

Member #9,349

December 2007

question = (2b||!2b)

8-)

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Gr4|\|f

Member #9,499

February 2008

Quote:

question = (2b||!2b)

No, that's already the question, you don't have to set it.

question == (2b||!2b)

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alethiophile

Member #9,349

December 2007

No, but you're stating that "that is the question", you're not asking "Is that the question?"

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Trezker

Member #1,739

December 2001

that=(2b||!2b)?question:!question;

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