All-New Book from O'Rly

[housetier]

Now that the memecats (Cute Overload, I Can Has Cheezburger, Meme Cats) have become deservedly popular, publishers are hopping on the train.


The first publisher to explain us the rules of lolingo and funniness are O'Rly in their latest book

LOLCODE - The Comprehensive Guide

Example code from the Book

Code

HAI

BTW HUGSTIME? is system functions for determining hugs time
CAN HAS HUGSTIME?
CAN HAS STDIO?

I HAS A LOVINGU
BTW NAO is automagically set to time right now
I HAS A NAO

IZ NAO HUGSTIME?
YARLY
VISIBLE "<3"
LOVINGU IZ K
NOWAI
VISIBLE "</3"
LOVINGU IZ NOES
KTHX

KTHXBYE

There are even concrete, hands-on uses of the language! While ROR (Ruby on Rails) made the Ruby programming language popular, Monorail does the same for the LOLingo programming language.

O'Rly are totally on top of the buzz again - order now! 

[app103]

There is a wiki site to go with this book: http://lolcode.com

Here is a sample of user contributed code, for a basic calculator:

Code

HAI
CAN HAS STDIO?

VISIBLE "Welcome to the basic calculator."
I HAS A NUMBER1 IZ 0
I HAS A NUMBER2 IZ 0
I HAS A OPERATION IZ NOTHING
I HAS A LINE IZ NOTHING
I HAS A COMPLETE IZ NOTWORKZ0RZ
I HAS A RESULT IZ 0

VISIBLE SAME LINEZ "Try what: "
TXT ME A LINE

IZ MAGICZ ON LINE WITH /(\n) (.?) (\n)/ ACTUALLY WORKZ0RZ?
        NUMBER1 IZ MAGICZ1
        OPERATION IZ MAGICZ2
        NUMBER2 IZ MAGICZ3
        COMPLETE IZ WORKZ0RZ
        KTHXBYE
:(
        VISIBLE "Can not parse line."
        COMPLETE IZ NOT WORKZ0RZ
        KTHXBYE

IZ COMPLETE WORKZ0RZ?
        WTF IZ OPERATION?
                OMG +
                        RESULT IZ UP NUMBER1!!NUMBER2
                OMG -
                        RESULT IZ DOWN NUMBER1!!NUMBER2
                OMG *
                        RESULT IZ TIMEZ NUMBER1!!NUMBER2
                OMG /
                        RESULT IZ DIVIDEZ NUMBER1!!NUMBER2
        KTHXBYE
:(
        VISIBLE "Didn't work :("
        DIAF! 2 "This is dieing"

VISIBLE "Result is: " ANDZ RESULT ANDZ "."

KTHXBYE

And for a donation of a 12 pack of beer, you can attend a LOLCODE workshop: I CAN HAS VAR?

[Lashiec]

LOL!

I was thinking: either it's an O'Reilly book and housetier is making a word play... or it's referring to the meme.

So, YA RLY.

[wyrwolf]

iz not yet jumping-the-shark. still iz LOL, web-trend crrrrent
not like ur Dance Pages - I m dissing ur webring!
hmmmm! I haz idea!
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