LOLCODE

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LOLCODE is a general-purpose programming language being developed to resemble the kitty pidgin natlang of the lolcat phenomenon. It was created in 2007, one year after LOLCATS became an Internet meme.

Keywords

These are the main keywords. All LOLCODE is written in uppercase.

Code	Comment
HAI	In all LOLCODE programs, HAI introduces the program.
BTW Comment	Introduces a comment.
CAN HAZ STDIO?	Includes the library STDIO.
VISIBLE [STRING]	Prints STRING to the standard output stream.
COMPLAIN [STRING]	Prints STRING to the standard error stream.
I HAZ A [VAR] ITZ [VALUE]	Declares a variable and assigns a value to it.
LOL [VAR] R [VALUE]	Another way of assigning a value to the variable.
IZ [VAR] [OPERATOR] [VALUE]? YARLY ...SOMECODE KTHX NOWAI ...SOMECODE KTHX	An if statement (spec 1.0). OPERATOR can be BIGR THAN (>), SMALLR THAN (<) or LIEK (==).
IM IN YR LOOP ...SOMECODE KTHX IM OUTTA YR LOOP	Runs the same code in the "IM IN YR LOOP" code block until it goes to a "KTHX" instruction in the code block. An "IM IN YR LOOP" code block which never goes to a "KTHX" instruction causes an infinite loop.
KTHXBYE	KTHXBYE terminates the program.

External resources

• Main site.
• 99 bottles of beer. On August 3, 2007 LOLCODE was the top rated entry on the 99 bottles of beer site.
• Extensive article on Wikipedia.