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Like making computers do your bidding? Enjoy Python features like lambdas? Indent-grouping? List comprehensions? Tired of Old Man Python telling you what you can and can't say to your computer? It's about time programming languages understood what the kids are typing these days. So let's start with a baby step in that direction: Like, Python.

Like, Python uses Python's own tokenizer to essentially add keywords to Python's lexical understanding. Python is a subset of Like, Python, so any script you've already written in Python is valid Like, Python and will run in the interpreter. But you can also write like you'd speak. For example, the following is a fully-functional "hello world" script, included in the download as hello_world.lp: #!usr/bin/python # My first Like, Python script! yo just print like "hello world" bro

Lingua::Romana::Perligata -- that makes it possible to write Perl programs in Latin.

Compared to other languages (both modern and ancient), English has a comparatively weak lexical structure. Much of the grammatical load of an English sentence is carried by positional cues. A statement such as ``The boy gave the dog the food'' only makes sense because of the convention that the subject precedes the verb, which precedes the indirect object, which precedes the direct object. Changing the order -- ``The food gave the boy the dog'' -- changes the meaning. Most programming languages use similar positional grammatical cues. The operation $maximum = $next is very different in meaning from $next = $maximum. Likewise, the function call push @my_assets, @your_money is not the same as push @your_money, @my_assets.

Compared to other languages (both modern and ancient), English has a comparatively weak lexical structure. Much of the grammatical load of an English sentence is carried by positional cues. A statement such as ``The boy gave the dog the food'' only makes sense because of the convention that the subject precedes the verb, which precedes the indirect object, which precedes the direct object. Changing the order -- ``The food gave the boy the dog'' -- changes the meaning. Most programming languages use similar positional grammatical cues. The operation $maximum = $next is very different in meaning from $next = $maximum. Likewise, the function call push @my_assets, @your_money is not the same as push @your_money, @my_assets.