Chef Programming Language Makes Programs That Look Like Recipes
As I look at the Chef programming language, a language that makes programs look like recipes, the terrifying memories of my computer science class come flooding back—but now with an added dose of hunger. The sample programs for Hello World Souffle and Fibonacci Numbers with Caramel Sauce do read like recipes—not that you'd want a souffle with 101 eggs—and somehow print non-recipe data after being run. If you want to decipher these recipes, read all about the code at DM's Esoteric Programming Languages. And once you figure it out, explain it to me. [via kottke and Ben Fry]
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Ouch! This made my head hurt. However, it could be useful once familiar with the ins and outs of the program.
dhorst at 6:00PM on 12/18/08
Haha. That's awesome. I love that it was used as part of the MIT Mystery Hunt.
"somehow print non-recipe data". That almost sounds like the internet is magic girl.
wunami at 8:03PM on 12/18/08
Someone should port this to .NET as Iron Chef
palmsey at 10:40AM on 12/19/08