New SubSonic Provider: LOLCode.NET

Just finished putting the wraps on a new provider for SubSonic using the new LOLCat.NET coding engine.

Just finished putting the wraps on a new provider for SubSonic using the new LOLCat.NET coding engine. If you haven't seen it, it's "teh suk"...

LOLCODE is an humorous esoteric programming language heavily inspired by structures found in many common programing languages, as modified to be expressed via common terms, stylings and informal spellings found in Internet memes (primarily lolcats) and the communication style found in internet slang, instant messenger chat, and cellphone text messaging ("TXT"), rather than the numerically-based l33t. The name itself comes from the expression "LOL" [laugh out loud].

You've seen this stuff - Twitter uses it a lot:

It's not easy working with this stuff- Phil and I were trying to figure out how to actually create a type with it. Phil took the first pass:

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HAI!
IM IN YR Northwind
HOW DUZ I ListProducts YR id 
PRODUCTS = GETPRODUCTS id
OMFG FOUND YR PRODUCTS
IF U SEZ
IM OUTTA YR Northwind

This worked pretty well, doing what you'd expect but you have to be sure to close off the "IM IN YR" opener or you'll have a memory leak. I still needed some help so I trolled over the LOLCode forums and found some great samples to help out.

Here's how you can work with strings:

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I HAS A STRING
GIMMEH STRING
IM IN YR VAR UPPIN YR 0 TIL LENGTH OF STRING
    VISIBLE "GIMMEE A " STRING!!VAR
    STEPPIN
IM OUTTA YR VAR

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HAI!
WTF:
I HAS A STRING
GIMMEH STRING
IM IN YR VAR UPPIN YR 0 TIL LENGTH OF STRING
    VISIBLE "GIMMEE A " STRING!!VAR
    STEPPIN
IM OUTTA YR VAR
OMFGWTF
   HALP!

Switches are supported too, although the GTFO is much clearer, to me, that "Break":

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IM IN YR HUNTIN
    GOT ANIMAL, WTF?
     OMG "Hedgehog"
        VISIBLE "Prickly!!"  GTFO
     OMG "Dog"
        VISIBLE "Halp!!!" GTFO HUNTIN
     OMG "Maus"
        VISIBLE "NOM NOM NOM"  GTFO
      OMGWTF
        VISIBLE "Wat iz Dat?"
      OIC
      VISIBLE "Still Huntin!!"
IM OUTA YR HUNTIN

The best part of the language is the terse syntax - it's immediately readable and allows you to grok the intent of the programmer. Check out this routine - you know what's intended here:

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HAI!
IM IN YR INDEX ITZ 0 BTW counting up
   TIL SIZEOF ABUKKIT
   process ABUKKIT!!INDEX
   UPPIN INDEX
   ZOMG U SUK WHRZ PRON?
IM OUTTA YR INDEX

IM IN YR INDEX ITZ SIZEOF ABUKKIT  BTW counting down
   TIL 0 
   NERFIN INDEX
   process ABUKKIT!!INDEX
IM OUTTA YR INDEX
I CAN HAZ PRON?

Feel free to check it out in the latest commit to our repository - it's one of the coolest things I've seen... EVAR.

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