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[wispfox]

ratatosk discusses Programming languages that aren't very popular.

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warning: geeky

[fraterrisus]

this prompted the following conversation on an IRC channel i frequent:

<orion> this seemed worth sharing: http://ratatosk.livejournal.com/196549.html
<topaz> I completely want to write a compiler for the Avocado language now.
<dirac> topaz: From what I hear, you can do so with Parrot.
<cdevers> let me guess, avocado scripts run on the guacamole virtual machine
<cdevers> or is it the other way round ?
<dirac> topaz: Actually, scratch that - Avocadoes are poisonous to birds.
<orion> guacamole is the GCC plugin for avocado
<topaz> orion++
<cdevers> let me guess, it's a math theory language, used to help calculate avocado's number
<orion> apu, trout cdevers
<apu> orion: excuse me?
<orion> damn.
<orion> oo, that's an old pet-ism, isn't it.
<orion> EWRONGCODEBASE
<cdevers> you had a pet trout ? odd
<topaz> for feeding to the parrot (THREAD CONVERGENCE ALERT)
<orion> *snort*
<cdevers> you snorted the trout ? careful that is illegal in some states
<orion> TROUT: a functional programming language used in climate/ocean prediction modelling
<cdevers> i thought it was a nautical typesetting tool, complementary to troff
<orion> oh, that's totally better
<orion> a typesetting language for nautical charts
<topaz> no no, a runtime debugger!
<topaz> "trin" to turn it on
<topaz> "trout" to turn it off
<cdevers> see also trin, trup, trover, tracross, etc
<cdevers> there's a whole trpreposition family of tools
<xilet> any solaris folks on?
<orion> no, but i'm an Avacado monk if you need any help there
<cdevers> no, they're all troff
<orion> a "chef", if you will
<topaz> avocado monk!!
<orion> i'm totally putting that on my resume
<cdevers> yes but do you have the certification, ACSE ?
<cdevers> (THREAD CONVERGENCE ALERT)
<orion> Avocado Certified Software Engineer?
<cdevers> what else ?
<cdevers> that or maybe Avacodo Cooking Software Engineer

Re: warning: geeky

[ratatosk.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is relevant that avocados might have co-evolved with giant sloths: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avocado#Co-evolution_hypothesis

Re: warning: geeky

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

This comment makes me very happy. :)

[cos]

I count two programming languages that are very popular (perl, python) and two that don't exist, but no mention of any programming languages that aren't very popular.