Yoda programming language

no-reply@allegro.cc (Trezker) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:07:22 +0000

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.

if imaginative you are
example make you must

no-reply@allegro.cc (Matthew Leverton) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:22:19 +0000

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (Neil Black) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:29:58 +0000

I'm still waiting on the Chewbacca programming language:

BBWWAAAA!!!("Hello World");

no-reply@allegro.cc (Thomas Fjellstrom) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:29:13 +0000

Quote:

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

I think you're thinking of Forth

no-reply@allegro.cc (alethiophile) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:09:57 +0000

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.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Kibiz0r) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:13:40 +0000

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (Erikster) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:13:19 +0000

Kibiz0r said:

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

Dang, beat me to it.

no-reply@allegro.cc (Trezker) — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:48:56 +0000

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (Arthur Kalliokoski) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:45:14 +0000

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!"

no-reply@allegro.cc (Cody Harris) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:53:14 +0000

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (alethiophile) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:39:06 +0000

(do||!do)
!try

no-reply@allegro.cc (ReyBrujo) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:18:25 +0000

Perl does something similar:

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (Thomas Fjellstrom) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:21:59 +0000

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (ixilom) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:27:40 +0000

Neil Black said:

BBWWAAAA!!!("Hello World");

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (Gr4|\|f) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:20:18 +0000

But luke, not ready are you.

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (alethiophile) — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:44:59 +0000

question = (2b||!2b)

no-reply@allegro.cc (Gr4|\|f) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:40:07 +0000

Quote:

question = (2b||!2b)

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

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (alethiophile) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:28:34 +0000

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

no-reply@allegro.cc (Trezker) — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 11:53:22 +0000

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