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Author Topic: C gibberish <-> English  (Read 4260 times)

Mark0

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C gibberish <-> English
« on: January 26, 2011, 03:03 PM »
cdecl: C gibberish <-> English

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cdecl.pngC gibberish <-> English

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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2011, 03:12 PM »
So where's the C gibberish <-> English <-> Real English translator? :D

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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2011, 04:34 AM »
Where's the C gibberish <-> Make Awesome Program Button?

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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2011, 03:05 AM »
Where's the English -> C Gibberish button?

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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #4 on: January 28, 2011, 09:45 AM »
Where's the English -> C Gibberish button?
There's none - it parses the text to figure out what you mean (basically, engrish must start with "define" iirc - it's probably been 5-10 years since I toyed with cdecl last :))
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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2011, 06:07 PM »
Sorry f0dder, but that was my lame attempt at continuing the joke.
Wishful thinking perhaps, that plain english could be translated into leet C code.  :-[
It's one thing to "Declare bar as const pointer", quite another to "Shoot death star, make asplode".  :P

I kinda figured that was what cdecl was doing, and it's interesting in it's own right, but I wonder if it could be used as a tool to help aspiring programmers learn?

It'd probably be most useful as a tool for deciphering legacy code that's been dropped in your lap...
« Last Edit: January 29, 2011, 06:10 PM by Edvard »

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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2011, 06:26 PM »

I kinda figured that was what cdecl was doing, and it's interesting in it's own right, but I wonder if it could be used as a tool to help aspiring programmers learn?

It'd probably be most useful as a tool for deciphering legacy code that's been dropped in your lap...

One day there'll be such a thing, but at that point all the clever coding will be done by systems themselves. We will be wearing silver suits and flying around in our own personal hover pods.

However, I do like your idea of a programming language whose sole purpose is to help people think in a programmy way.

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Re: C gibberish <-> English
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2011, 03:44 AM »
I thought that's what BASIC was for  :P

Or Ruby...  :-[