Now there's lolcode:
HAI CAN HAS STDIO? I HAS A VAR GIMMEH VAR IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10 O RLY? YA RLY BTW this is true VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!" NO WAI BTW this is false VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!" KTHX KTHXBYE
In addition to the lolcode site itself, which of course includes a wiki, you should check out the scholarly appreciation at Notes from a Linguistic Mystic ("im in ur programmz, codin in ur dialect: LOLCode and Feline Dialectology", 5/29/2007):
Periodically, one goes through periods of deep metaphysical malaise. You look around at the world, wondering how such evil could flourish and such suffering could endure. You descend deeper into darkness, your faith in humanity waning, wondering why we were ever born into this cruel world. Then, suddenly, you realize that somebody has written a programming language based off of the dialect of Lolcats/Cat Macros, and your faith in humanity’s inherent good is completely restored.
Indeed. Breathes there a soul so dead, whose spiritual batteries are not recharged by reading
IZ VAR LESSER THAN 0 O RLY?
YA RLY
HALP "Var is too little!"!
KTHX
So far, no one seems to have taken up the challenge to create an object-oriented lolcode ("lolcode++"?) or a functional lolcode ("lolcaml"?), but I'm not certain of my ability to track memetic evolution as we approach the lolsingularity.
[THX to approximately ℵ0 readers.]
[Update -- Chris Casinghino writes:
I saw your post about lolcode today. While I don't know of a complete functional language in this vein, you might enjoy this recent post to one of the Haskell mailing lists, which defines what might be called a lolmonad:
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-May/026142.html
Several posts in the thread expand on the idea
And in the same vein, Zohar Kelrich writes:
In your recent Language Log posting on FOP (Feline-Oriented Programming) you mentioned the lack of functional-lolcode Actually, research into functional cats has already started, as can be seen here.
This is clearly an active area of research, rapidly advancing towards the lolsingularity.]
Posted by Mark Liberman at May 30, 2007 05:02 AM