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# I always liked this one
omniglot.com/writing/vine.htm
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:00, archived)
# some are totally insane
omniglot.com/writing/gernreich.htm
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:03, archived)
# That one's just crazy
How are you meant to read anything with that? It's like an ant got drunk and fell in an ink pot.

It also reminds me of really stupid programming languages. I like Cow, which is a palate swap of Brainfuck, where code looks like

Moo mooo moooo? Mooo mooo moo!

and so on.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:12, archived)
# I had an idea for a hexagonal writing system,
where the layout would indicate grammatical structure rather than spoken order.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:14, archived)
# Definitely. I think 2D writing systems would be a great idea. Seems like there are a few on omniglot, like the maze one.
Or omniglot.com/writing/patternscript.htm
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:19, archived)
# Ooh
I like that one.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:28, archived)
# There's a similar language called Oook.
I agree that many of those constructed scripts are useless as they are too hard to read, but I think the minimal stacking alphabet is quite good.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:16, archived)
# I like the Chef language, too
You replace variables with ingredients, and initialise them with the quantity you need, and then add them to the cooking bowl and pull them out again.

I think Ook and Cow are both just Brainfuck with different symbols. I also like Fuckfuck which exists in a few variants where you replace the characters with swear words. :)

Anyway.

"Graph Script was created by Nicholas Harvey, a visitor to omniglot.com. He created it because he wanted his own script to express the creative person that he is. To him, creating scripts is an art form. He strives to be different from everyone else, so he made a script that is read from bottom to top and from right to left, and written in the form of a grid. It is unique in that it can be written on graphing paper."

He sounds like... a total wanker... On the other hand, I may start inventing writing systems. It'd be a way of expressing the creative person that I am -- almost like an art form.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:19, archived)
# Like, Python is quite fun.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:19, archived)
# Actually I've never used Python
I don't think I've used any scripting beyond Bash scripts. I'm a rubbish programmer really.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:24, archived)
# No man, Like, Python.
(I helped save b3ta! Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:25, archived)
# Oh right, I'd forgotten about that - it does look fun. There's lolcode in a similar dark corner of the programming language world.
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:29, archived)
# Hmm
You mean this kind of python?

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8621374.stm

Edit: God damn I'm slow. Never heard of it. I'm going to go a-Googling if my internet holds up.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:31, archived)
# hahaha
i like that one.

it does remind me of lolcode too. not that that's a bad thing - i'm just waiting till there's good enough lolcode to c (or to fortran) convertors and then i'll start programming in lolcode exclusively.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:35, archived)
# Hahh. What a tool.
Yeah, I looked at Chef. It's quite a neat idea, but probably not very practical :)

(and as for ^ python, yes it is great. I read the discussions on perl6's language evolution and cringe at the increasingly arcane decisions they are making, like metaoperators and junk and that).
(I helped save b3ta! The Alchemist king of the needlessly complicated, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:26, archived)
# I think Chef is probably deeply impractical
I like the Hello World! program the guy who invented it wrote. In the comments he says "This program prints 'Hello, World!' on the screen. It also makes an awful lot of food for one person."

One of these days I will port a CMB Boltzmann integrator to Chef. Or to Shakespeare.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 16 Apr 2010, 23:37, archived)