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    From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.misc on Fri Sep 6 00:24:26 2024
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    Looking at the picture at the head of this article <https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-in-programming-languages-popularity-since-2016-and-what-it-tells-us/>,
    I couldn’t recognize what language was used for that code.

    Does anybody know what language it might be? Of course, it could be a
    fake.
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  • From Bart@bc@freeuk.com to comp.lang.misc on Fri Sep 6 10:56:57 2024
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    On 06/09/2024 01:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    Looking at the picture at the head of this article <https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-in-programming-languages-popularity-since-2016-and-what-it-tells-us/>,
    I couldn’t recognize what language was used for that code.

    Does anybody know what language it might be? Of course, it could be a
    fake.

    The one with 'if ("true")' and the mix of // and # comments? It looks
    made-up.
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  • From Dmitry A. Kazakov@mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de to comp.lang.misc on Fri Sep 6 14:14:06 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc

    On 2024-09-06 11:56, Bart wrote:
    On 06/09/2024 01:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
    Looking at the picture at the head of this article
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-in-programming-languages-popularity-since-2016-and-what-it-tells-us/>,
    I couldn’t recognize what language was used for that code.

    Does anybody know what language it might be? Of course, it could be a
    fake.

    The one with 'if ("true")' and the mix of // and # comments? It looks made-up.

    if ("true") makes a lot of sense in our times of alternative facts and
    moral relativism... (:-))



    In fuzzy logic proper ("fuzzy logic" refers neither to fuzzy nor to
    logic (:-)) you could have (so-called linguistic variable):

    if almost true then
    s1;
    else
    s2;
    end if;

    and follow both paths with different levels of confidence. A potentially interesting language which could be efficiently implemented on modern multicores. The process of splitting paths is called "fuzzification."
    When you must bring them back to a single choice using some method like selecting the path with the highest confidence level, that is called "defuzzification."

    </OT>
    --
    Regards,
    Dmitry A. Kazakov
    http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@ldo@nz.invalid to comp.lang.misc on Fri Sep 6 23:36:05 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.misc

    On Fri, 6 Sep 2024 10:56:57 +0100, Bart wrote:

    On 06/09/2024 01:24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

    Looking at the picture at the head of this article
    <https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-rise-and-fall-in-programming-languages-popularity-since-2016-and-what-it-tells-us/>,
    I couldn’t recognize what language was used for that code.

    Does anybody know what language it might be? Of course, it could be a
    fake.

    The one with 'if ("true")' and the mix of // and # comments? It looks made-up.

    Yeah, I’m tending to agree. Something from an AI given a
    (deliberately?) confusing prompt about a program to write, perhaps? ;)
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