93% of paint splatters are valid Perl programs (2019)

Concatenative languages [1] have the property that every token sequence is a valid program. For languages using single bits as tokens, every bit sequence is a valid program. One such language is Chris Barker's zot [2]. Inspired by zot, I defined a concatenative version of Binary Lambda Calculus that shares the same property [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_lang... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_and_Jot#Zot [3] https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/questions/32309/concatena...

That's a fun read. I once wrote an entire CMS in Perl. I still wake up, screaming, sometimes. [UPDATE] It appears as if my flippant remark caused upset. I am sincerely sorry that this was the case. No offense was meant. @peteretep, you have my sincere apology. It was a flippant remark. At the time I wrote it (mid-1990s), Perl was the best way to write portable server-side code. I took the time to learn it, and got fairly good…

I read the paper and now I'm just really wondering what those splashes from Splatoon resulted in. Anyways, that was a very interesting experiment. Nice to see people having wacky fun with things.