We do have a few Q+A questions. Tips

Fine. Technically, yes.

Still, I agree.

@ATaco Less professional :P

Yes, very much so.

XKCD: xkcd.com/1171

@Riker wut

There's @betseg

@ZacharyT what about betseg

why mention

He's here.

o ok

do you announce every arrival

xD

No, only the arrival of an awaited person. (@Riker was just wondering where @betseg was, so I announced it)

Ah okay.

Those pings weren't really necessary btw.

@​betseg pinged @​Riker already and you pinged @​betseg already and back-to-back pings are unnecessary.

So, imma start writing a Python interpreter tonight, anything I need to know? (I don't know Python)

(none of those ^ are pings btw :D)

@HyperNeutrino wow how

@betseg zero-width spaces :D

@HyperNeutrino oooh

@StephenS wat

@StephenS Are you interpreting Python or are you writing an interpreter in python?

@betseg I shortcut it to /​zwsp :P

@HyperNeutrino interpreter in python

@StephenS If you don't know Python, then wait until you've got the basics.

@StephenS and you don't know python ಠ_ಠ

can't be that hard, right? /s

well depends

what languages do you know?

oh /s ok

What does /s mean?

end sarcastic comment

@HyperNeutrino Java, JS, and VB, but bits and pieces of others

@StephenS Then Python may be slightly difficult to adjust to.

@HyperNeutrino from what I've seen it's just like JS

No.

@HyperNeutrino Just with actual desktop stuff

idc about syntax I can adapt to that

Javascript is like function f(x) { /* stuff */ ;} and Python is like def f(x): '''stuff'''

Yeah I know, syntax is easy

Oh well if you adapt well to syntax it shouldn't be too hard.

I've seen enough answers around and worked with enough languages

Both are weakly-typed so it helps to know both Java and JS.

first language I learned was VB, not that much difference

Python is like VB + JS

I've never seen VB before :P

but better

Just get used to "strongly-typed dynamic"

You can't do 0+'Hello'

yeah that's annoying

like even Java lets you do that and Java's supposed to be annoying with types and all

@ZacharyT That shouldn't be too hard

'%dHello'%0

But at least you don't get []+[] => ''

That is true.

@HyperNeutrino google it, it has newline delimited like python, and words like python, but it's the "same" as C#

Wait JS does THAT??

@HyperNeutrino Google JSF***

@StephenS looks pretty similar to Python. Reminds me of something... maybe Lua? I can't remember.

@StephenS Is that a BF deriv?

@HyperNeutrino It's (raw) JS, but only with array stuff

@HyperNeutrino It's JS with restricted chars.

It's a regular JS interpreter I believe

Oh okay. That's intriguing.

Yeah, javascript is weird with types.

I want to go for Python 3, right?

Wait so JSF**k can be run with JS interpreters?

yes

@StephenS I would recommend it. Depends, for what purpose are you making this language?

interesting

you're basically writing JS with weird JS chars afai can remember

@HyperNeutrino fun

Go for compatable between 2 and 3.

String * number should always return a string repeated n times.

@StephenS like golfing or tarpit or what else?

@ZacharyT uh kinda 2d but not really

you can only use any of []()+!

No.

I mean Python2 and Python3

Remember when we did JSFuck with five characters..?

@ZacharyT How do I do that when I don't know how to :P

> For instance, the lack of alphanumeric characters in JSFuck on the one hand, and a flawed content filter on the other hand, allowed sellers to embed arbitrary JSFuck scripts in their eBay auction pages

ಠ_ಠ

@HyperNeutrino they doubled down and pretty much said it was a feature

Yeah, when esolangs have real-world applications.

And BF with short proof of turing completeness.

@ZacharyT BF turing completeness made so many esolang's lives easier

since they could just prove they could run BF and that proves they are turing complete

Rule 110 is sometimes easier.

Game of Life ... LOL

@HyperNeutrino Like, CSS is turing complete :P

@StephenS No.

@ZacharyT Yes

It needs constant user input.

I think I know what you're talking about.

how can CSS be turing complete

that does not even make sense

> You can encode Rule 110 in CSS3, so it's Turing-complete so long as you consider an appropriate accompanying HTML file and user interactions to be part of the “execution” of CSS.

maybe not as good as I remembered

When we did JSFuck in 5 characters

God, no IO.

God.

Wait, never mind. That's ECMAScript.

@HyperNeutrino so Python3 right?

@ZacharyT Same thing as JS right?

Python2 + Python3 (make it work in both(

@ZacharyT right, but which runtime do I install

@StephenS Pretty much

ECMAScript == JS

No clue. I run both on my linux.

But it's called ECMAScript because Oracle sued.

@ATaco * ECMAScript === JS

Nah, it's not a perfect match.

Except for HTML/IO and stuff

It matters

ok what ide is best for python

I use a text editor :P

But PyCharm is pretty good.

^^

gedit

@ATaco What did someone just say about random OT pictures

Hey, %, aren't you gonna kick or something?

haha very funny >.<

wait what ais was only a member for 7 months

That's an actual pun >_<

I know ><

@ATaco I bet Mathematica has a builtin for that too

Mathematica has a builtin for everything (not a golflang, thank god)

That onebox is too big.

It takes up one whole chat screen.

XKCD is clearly SE's priority.

SE is my favourite site to read XKCD

Mods and ROs would disagree.