Name: Anonymous 2012-02-20 11:55
I've been thinking, wouldn't posts be much simpler if we had some sort of /prog/ specific language to create metaposts? Writing a few lines of code to generate the content of a post is much more efficient than writing the actual post itself.
Of course, this is just a small subset of what such a language could do. I'm just laying out the basic idea.
print backTo(/g/) // Prints "Back to /g/, please!"
print isShit(Lisp) // Prints "Lisp is shit"
//This can be extended further, to use information
//obtained from the specific thread
foreach (x; thisThread.langs)
print isShit(x) //For every language x mentioned in the
//the thread, prints "x is shit"
//Also has powerful mechanisms for
//parsing the content of other posts
foreach (p; thisThread.posts.mentions(Python))
print p.num newln backTo("toilet scrubbing") //For any post that mentions Python, reference it and print "Back to toilet scrubbing, please!"Of course, this is just a small subset of what such a language could do. I'm just laying out the basic idea.