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Angry programmers noise getting louder and louder (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by devilish666@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[-] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Fair point. There's a fine line between programming and creating data that a program operates on. I tend to think writing text to produce nontext output is more programming than not.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 8 months ago

There are programming languages that are entirely visual. In fact, I could parse the pixels in a bitmap created by ms paint and make it into programming.

It's not even that hard. Assign a set of color values to a character in Brainfuck. Iterate through each pixel and do the translation. Throw away color values that don't match. Run the result through the Brainfuck compiler.

If I'm really crazy, I could implement the instructions directly rather than translating, but translation is easier.