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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