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ArnoldC
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lhartikk / ArnoldC

ArnoldC

Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language

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What it is

Arnold Schwarzenegger based programming language

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Among natural-looking programming languages, my favorite currently is ArnoldC: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC https://i.imgur.com/XGB5oLG.jpg

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year24 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-02-25 15:20:43 UTC to 2025-06-25 08:33:29 UTC.

024682014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 6 submissions, 2 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC862
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

From the project README

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ArnoldC Programming language based on the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger. Motivation Although the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger are fairly well known the true semantics of the uttering is yet to be understood. This project tries to discover new meanings from the Arnold movies with the means of computer science. HelloWorld.arnoldc IT'S SHOWTIME TALK TO THE HAND "hello world" YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED Quick Start wget http://lhartikk.github.io/ArnoldC.jar echo -e "IT'S SHOWTIME\nTALK TO THE HAND \"hello world\"\nYOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED" > hello.arnoldc java -jar ArnoldC.jar hello.arnoldc java hello To create some "audible" output you can try the -declaim option: java -jar ArnoldC.jar -declaim hello.arnoldc Brief overview of the keywords Check the wiki for more details False I LIED True NO PROBLEMO If BECAUSE I'M GOING TO SAY PLEASE Else BULLSHIT EndIf YOU HAVE NO RESPECT FOR LOGIC While STICK AROUND EndWhile CHILL PlusOperator GET UP MinusOperator GET DOWN MultiplicationOperator YOU'RE FIRED DivisionOperator HE HAD TO SPLIT ModuloOperator I LET HIM GO EqualTo YOU ARE NOT YOU YOU ARE ME GreaterThan LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET Or CONSIDER THAT A DIVORCE And KNOCK KNOCK DeclareMethod LISTEN TO ME VERY CAREFULLY NonVoidMethod GIVE THESE PEOPLE AIR MethodArguments I NEED YOUR CLOTHES YOUR BOOTS AND YOUR MOTORCYCLE Return I'LL BE BACK EndMethodDeclaration HASTA LA VISTA, BABY CallMethod DO IT NOW AssignVariableFromMethodCall GET YOUR ASS TO MARS DeclareInt HEY CHRISTMAS TREE SetInitialValue YOU SET US UP BeginMain IT'S SHOWTIME EndMain YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED Print TALK TO THE HAND ReadInteger I WANT TO ASK YOU A BUNCH OF QUESTIONS AND I WANT TO HAVE THEM ANSWERED IMMEDIATELY AssignVariable GET TO THE CHOPPER SetValue HERE IS MY INVITATION EndAssignVariable ENOUGH TALK ParseError WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO WRONG
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What Hacker News says

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BeefWellington·Mar 25, 2022
> OK, I am waiting for you to propose a basic language parser that can do it. There's a reason we're only now having this debate - it was unconceivable 5 years ago, in the era of basic language parsers. This is really untrue. In fact, making "English as a programming language" was a goal of many older programming languages such as COBOL[1], BASIC, and PASCAL as early as the 60s. It's hardly a new idea and was hardly inconceivable "5 years ago" for something to output a programming language. The sentence example here could easily be broken down by the ParseTalk model from the mid-90s[2]. Here's a recent ish example (2018) of someone developing a "fully English" programming language: https://osmosianplainenglishprogramming.blog/2018/05/02/plai... It's also a source of fun[3][4][5] for people. These are all examples of either programming lan
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guages straight up using English as syntax, or lexical parsers that can break down language and provide you with the programmatic ability to make this kind of output. The difference here is that while copilot is pulling in python examples based on its training data set, that one thing the author singled out for amazement could easily be done by these older non-ML methods. The value copilot is adding in the example is just outputting python compared to those other methods. The real value is way larger than that, pulling in potentially more complex code to accomplish a complete task. It's a bit like seeing an all-electric cargo train and being amazed that a train can run on electricity, when electrified light rail has existed for a long time. The impressive part is not that a thing on rails can use electricity to move around, it's the fact that it can pull heavy cargo efficiently enough to make electric power viable. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#COBOL_60 [2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9410017 [3]: https://github.com/RockstarLang/rockstar/blob/main/examples/... [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_Programming_Langua... [5]: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC/wiki/ArnoldC
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