I Would Code Anything for Love (but I Won't Code That)

Somebody clearly wants an Ig Nobel... Wow.

(Also, I am highly amused!)

Money quote from the programming language's GitHub page:

"Rockstar is a dynamically typed Turing-complete programming language.

Rockstar is designed for creating computer programs that are also song lyrics, and is heavily influenced by the lyrical conventions of 1980s hard rock and power ballads."

The Rockstar programming language, where power ballads = code https://t.co/l4sdSlV0BV pic.twitter.com/a7Fhm9zlf5

— Samuel Arbesman (@arbesman) July 23, 2018

Update (7/23/18): I wrote a blurb about Rockstar for the Improbable Research blog.