New Programming Language Uses Schwarzenegger’s One-Liners

There are lots of programming languages out there. But how many of them let you code using Arnold Schwarzenegger’s iconic one-liners?

The answer is one: ArnoldC, available on GitHub. If you ever wanted to type “I NEED YOUR CLOTHES YOUR BOOTS AND YOUR MOTORCYCLE” in place of “MethodArguments” or “YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED” instead of “EndMain,” this is the imperative programming language for you. (And yes, those all-caps are a necessity.) The language currently features 33 keywords, each coded to a different quip; parboiled handles parsing, while ASM generates the Java bytecode. The only variable type is a 16-bit signed integer.

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“Although the one-liners of Arnold Schwarzenegger are fairly well known the true semantics of the uttering is yet to be understood,” reads the statement accompanying the setup files. “This project tries to discover new meanings from the Arnold movies with the means of computer science.”

It seems unlikely, however, that anyone will use keywords such as “I LIED” (in place of “False”) or “NO PROBLEMO” (instead of “True”) to program something other than a parlor trick. For anyone interested in pursuing ArnoldC a little further, a GitHub Wiki offers some nifty examples of what you can do with it, including:

Printing Squares from 1 to 10

IT’S SHOWTIME

HEY CHRISTMAS TREE limit

YOU SET US UP 10

HEY CHRISTMAS TREE index

YOU SET US UP 1

HEY CHRISTMAS TREE squared

YOU SET US UP 1

HEY CHRISTMAS TREE loop

YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO

STICK AROUND loop

GET TO THE CHOPPER squared

HERE IS MY INVITATION index

YOU’RE FIRED index

ENOUGH TALK

TALK TO THE HAND squared

GET TO THE CHOPPER loop

HERE IS MY INVITATION limit

LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET index

ENOUGH TALK

GET TO THE CHOPPER index

HERE IS MY INVITATION index

GET UP 1

ENOUGH TALK

CHILL

YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

Hasta la vista, baby.

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