Monicelli

Monicelli is an esoterical programming language based on the concept of "supercazzole" from the movie Amici Miei, a masterpiece of Italian comedy, directed by the Italian filmmaker and screenwriter Mario Monicelli, after whom the language is named. The language was created by Stefano Sanfilippo in 2014.

A supercazzola - also spelled "supercazzora" - is an Italian word describing a comically deceptive discourse composed mostly of gibberish and made-up words. However, according to Sanfilippo, this definition «sadly does not capture the true essence of what a "supercazzola" [...] is». Sanfilippo created the language as a way to explain the concept of supercazzola to the international public.

Example

Several examples of Monicelli programs are available in the examples folder in the Monicelli repository.

Ciao, mondo! (Hello, world!)

This is a simple version of the Hello, world program, you can find a more complex one, which is closer to a true supercazzola in the Monicelli repository.

# ciao-mondo.mc
#
# Author: Cristian Consonni <cristian@balist.es>
# Released under MIT
#
# This program prints the string 'Ciao, mondo!\n' - which is  Italian for
# 'Hello, world!\n'.
#
# The program declares a `char` variable called `tarapiapiatapioco` and then
# puts in the values need for each letter and prints them right away.
# These are the char values:
#
# C  i   a  o   ,  ·  m   o   n   d   o   !  \n
# 67 105 97 111 44 32 109 111 110 100 111 33 10

Lei ha clacsonato
voglio la tarapiatapioco, Mascetti
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 67, tarapiatapioco a posterdati  # C
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 105, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # i
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 97, tarapiatapioco a posterdati  # a
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 111, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # o
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 44, tarapiatapioco a posterdati  # ,
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 32, tarapiatapioco a posterdati  #
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 109, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # m
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 111, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # o
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 110, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # n
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 100, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # d
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 111, tarapiatapioco a posterdati # o
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 33, tarapiatapioco a posterdati  # !
tarapiatapioco come se fosse 10, tarapiatapioco a posterdati  # \n
vaffanzum!

which can be compiled with:

$ mcc -o ciao-mondo ciao-mondo.mc

this will produce an executable called, ciao-mondo, which when executed will print "Ciao, mondo!":

$ ./ciao-mondo
Ciao, mondo!

Bibliography

• Monicelli GitHub repo
• Supercazzola. (April, 6th 2021). Wikipedia, he free Encyclopedia. Visited on 2021-05-08 11:50.