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Ook?

I guess I am spamming, sorry for that, but this is too funny to be left out

Ook!
is a programming language designed for orang-utans.

See some other esoteric languages here.

By marco at 2005-06-30 20:33 | LtU Forum | previous forum topic | next forum topic | other blogs | 7632 reads

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It is funny

:-)

Esoteric languages are always fun...

By Ehud Lamm at Thu, 2005-06-30 20:43 | login or register to post comments

Unless they become an obsession

Got hooked on BrainF*ck a while back, and I'm still trying to recover. :-)

By Chris Rathman at Thu, 2005-06-30 20:48 | login or register to post comments

Is this inspired by the Librarian in the Discworld book?

the lexicon of the language bears marked similarity to that of that character.

By carter at Thu, 2005-06-30 20:47 | login or register to post comments

Don't think so

As far as I can tell from one sample the librarian is shockingly more literate. In that book he mainly says "Oook," not "Ook". [T. Pratchet 91, Reaper Man]

Guess "Ook" is for mundane orang-utans only.

By marco at Fri, 2005-07-01 08:37 | login or register to post comments

Yes, but

No, I think it is Librarian-based. There's one thing that gives it away: one of the design principles is "the syntax should [...] not mention the word "monkey"".

By John Stracke at Fri, 2005-07-01 17:30 | login or register to post comments

I stand corrected

Hehe, such an obvious clue and I missed it. Never took myself to be a language purist ;-) Ah well, we live and learn.

By marco at Fri, 2005-07-01 20:52 | login or register to post comments

Many of them.

There are many more (including several of mine) listed on the esolang wiki.

By BigZaphod at Fri, 2005-07-01 03:41 | login or register to post comments

i wonder

how to create a recursive function in this language? :)

By rmalafaia at Fri, 2005-07-01 15:54 | login or register to post comments

Ook

Oook!

By Qrczak at Fri, 2005-07-01 17:33 | login or register to post comments

So if we take an infinite number of orang-utangs...

:)

By raboof at Sat, 2005-07-02 10:26 | login or register to post comments