As far as programming languages go, I’ve never really got into Ruby on Rails. Not surprising really. It’s shit. A much better language than Ruby is currently in development and standards are being agreed on right this minute (well, not this minute but you know what I mean, don’t you.) The language in question is LOLCODE and there are currently compilers being written in .Net, Java, C and Python amongst others. The goal is to develop the ultimate standard in web languages - LOLCODE ON MONORAIL.

I think they’re on the right tracks. Check out this simple Hello World program:

HAI
   CAN HAS STDIO?
   VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"
KTHXBYE


Getting user input is pretty straight forward:

HAI
   CAN HAS STDIO?
   I HAS A VAR
   GIMMEH VAR
   VISIBLE "You said " N VAR N " !!"
KTHXBYE


Looping is in there too:


HAI
   CAN HAS STDIO?
   I HAS A VAR
   IM IN YR LOOP
      UP VAR!!1
      VISIBLE VAR
      IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE
   IM OUTTA YR LOOP
KTHXBYE


Conditional statements (and use of the commenting keyword - BTW)


HAI
   CAN HAS STDIO?
   I HAS A VAR
   GIMMEH VAR
   IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10?
      YARLY
         BTW this is true
         VISIBLE "BIG NUMBER!"
      NOWAI
         BTW this is false
         VISIBLE "LITTLE NUMBER!"
   KTHX
KTHXBYE


There are some standards I disagree with and suggestions on the F13 forums so far have included replacing STDIO with IM, looping through a set of numbers should be more like “IM IN YR LOOP COUNTIN MY NUMZ FROM ZERO 2 TEN”. Not sure I like the use of VISIBLE as an output command either. True being YARLY and false being NOWAI is genius though.

KTHXBYE!