FTOP
Posted on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 3:36 amI want to design a programming paradigm that focus on fairy tale. Should I call it, FTOP Fairy tale oriented programming language. Why ? because most of the fairy tales are happy ending, so my programming paradigm should allow or force the programmer to be happier when they finish their job.
In my idea, a program should be the hybrid between pure OOP and prototype-based programming (e.g. wolf eat: girl.prototype(size=small, hat.type=hood, hat.color=red)) plus some indent-forced style of evil Python . This should allow to reuse a fairy tale. I mean, fox is mostly a bad guy, we should reuse them, right.
the program may be started and ended using tags like this
once upon a time
…
happily ever after
Well, let’s try a short program then, let’s use this tale
tale name: "Little Red Ridding Hood"
once_upon_a_time: {
little_red_ridding = human clone:
prototype: {sex = woman,
age = girl,
size = little,
living_place = country|village,
appearance = prettiest}.
mother = human clone:
prototype: {sex = woman,
age = adult,
mother_of = little_red_ridding,
living_place = little_red_ridding.living_place}.
grandmother = human clone:
prototype: {sex = woman,
age = old,
mother_of = mother}.
little_red_ridding_hood = cloth clone:
prototype: {type = hood,
color = red}.
little_red_ridding prototype: {hat = little_red_ridding_hood}.
cakes = food clone:
prototype: {type = cake}.
mother made: cakes
said: "Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing,
for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake,
and this little pot of butter."
to: little_red_ridding.
grandmother prototype: {living_place = other_village}.
little_red_ridding go: grandmother.living_place.
wolf = animal clone:
prototype: {type = wolf}.
little_red_ridding met: wolf.
woodcutters = human clone: many
prototype: {sex = man,
age = adult}.
wolf wanted: (eat: girl)
but: (cannot because: woodcutters location: nearby)
said: "where she was going"
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding know: !(talk: wolf)
said: "I am going to see my grandmother
and carry her a cake and a little pot
of butter from my mother."
to: wolf.
wolf said: "Does she live far off?"
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding said: {"Oh I say,", "it is beyond that mill you see
there, at the first house in the village."}
to: wolf.
wolf said: {"Well,", "and I'll go and see her too. I'll go this way
and go you that, and we shall see who will be there first."}
to: little_red_ridding.
wolf ran: fast
gathered: nuts
ran: (after: butterflies)
gathered: (bouquets of: flowers clone: many
prototype: {size = little}).
wolf knocked: grandmother.house.
grandmother said: "Who's there?"
to: wolf.
wolf counterfeit: little_red_ridding.voice
said: {"Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood,",
"who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter
sent you by mother."}
to: grandmother.
grandmother prototype: {status = ill}
said: "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."
to: wolf.
wolf pulled: bobbin
opened: door
ate: grandmother
shut: door
get_into: bed.
little_red_ridding knocked: door.
wolf said: "Who's there?"
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding heard: wolf.voice
afraid: wolf.voice
believed: (grandmother cold: hoarse:)
said: "It is your grandchild Little Red Riding Hood,
who has brought you a cake and a little pot of
butter mother sends you."
to: wolf.
wolf cried:
soften: wolf.voice
said: "Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding pulled: bobbin
opened: door.
wolf saw: (little_red_ridding came:)
said: "Put the cake and the little pot of butter upon
the stool, and come get into bed with me."
to: little_red_ridding
hide: (bedclothes under:).
little_red_ridding took_off: her.cloth
moved_to: bed
amazed:
saw: (grandmother.nightClothes)
said: "Grandmother, what big arms you have!"
to: wolf.
wolf said: "All the better to hug you with, my dear."
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding said: "Grandmother, what big legs you have!"
to: wolf.
wolf said: "All the better to run with, my child."
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding said: "Grandmother, what big ears you have!"
to: wolf.
wolf said: "All the better to hear with, my child."
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding said: "Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"
to: wolf.
wolf said: "All the better to see with, my child."
to: little_red_ridding.
little_red_ridding said: "Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"
to: wolf.
wolf said: "All the better to eat you up with."
to: little_red_ridding
ate: little_red_ridding.
} happily_ever_after:
Errr well, it’s not happy ending, I should put grammatical error around here. Anyway, you got the idea 😀
I’ll try to show you another program later, maybe … snow white.
