Just a brief intro to this complete waste of time. I've always enjoyed seeing natural language expressed as code, as in
this example. This type of thing happens quite often on places like Twitter, as in the recent #MovieLinesInCode extravaganza, discussed in
this blogpost.
Here are some of mine:
- !me.push();
- space[i].hear.scream=0;
- encounters[3]=close;
- person[] home = new person[1]; home[0]=kid;
- frankly.damn=0;
- ET.phone(home);
- for(i=0; i<president.men.length; i++)
- that.equals(me.family) && me.family!=me;
- for(i=0; i<slaves.length; i++)="" slaves[i]="spartacus;
- for(i=0; i<bodySnatchers.length; i++) bodySnatchers[i].invade();
- if(thing.moves==true) frank.fuck(thing);
- if(this.power==great) this.responsibility=great;
- place[i].like(home)==false;
- me.mad.amount>=hell && !me.take(this) break;
- me.big=true; pictures--;
English translations:
- "Don't push me." //Rambo
- "In space no-one can hear you scream." //Alien
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Home Alone
- "Frankly my dear I don't give a damn." //Gone With the Wind
- "ET phone home." //ET
- All the President's Men
- "That's my family (Kay) it's not me." //Godfather - not 100% correct but hey
- "I'm Spartacus" scene. //Spartacus
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers
- "I'll fuck anything that moves." //Frank, Blue Velvet
- "With great power comes great responsibility." //Spiderman
- "There's no place like home." //The Wizard of Oz
- "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more." //Network
- "I am big, it's the pictures that got small." //Sunset Boulevard
Anyway, being a total weirdo who spends more time interacting with computers than with humans I find that computer language has influenced the way I perceive things. For example, when I go swimming, I think of each length as incrementing something larger as part of an iterative process. So rather than seeking professional help for what's clearly the makings of a personality disorder, I thought I'd start a blog dedicated to expressions of something other than instructions for a computer through pseudocode.