PRASCAL
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PRASCAL "a programming language that distorts traditional PASCAL using pataphysical principles. The aim of the language is to stimulate creativity and to embed playfulness in computer systems. A wider aim is to reach towards a less severe, more human, form of logic."[1] Created by Andrew Hugill and Hongji Yang in 2016 and presented in the International Journal of Creative Computing.
Concepts
Patadata
Is defined as "... a layer of meta-metadata, we will benefit from the ambiguities thrown up by the process of metadata creation, precisely those ‘shortcomings’ identified by Doctorow (2001) in his ‘Metacrap’ thesis: lying, laziness, error, subjectivity, plurality, and so on. But we will also be able to insert our pataphysical declensions into the metadata harvest in a way that will enrich the creative interaction, rather than just deliver a series of obvious mistakes." [2]
Uboolean logic
Adds a third state beyond True (T) and False (F): FalsTrue (FT), representing something being simultaneously false and true. It is named after Alfred Jarry's character Ubu Roi.
T ∧ FT = FT,
F ∧ FT = F,
FT ∧ FT = FT,
¬FT = FT
References
External resources
- http://andrewhugill.com/writings/PRASCAL.pdf
- Cory Doctorow's Metacrap, 2001.
- Hendler, J. and Hugill, A. (2013) ‘The syzygy surfer: (Ab)using the semantic web to inspire creativity’, Int. J. Creative Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp.20–34. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCRC.2013.056926
- Hugill, A and Yang, H (2016) 'PRASCAL: a pataphysical programming language.' International Journal of Creative Computing, 1 (2/3/4). pp. 133-153. ISSN 2043-8354 https://doi.org/10.1504/IJCRC.2016.076080