Languages used in NaNoGenMo2014

[MichaelPaulukonis]

There are a variety of programming languages used for the various projects.

I'd like to assemble a list of them, as well as links to some of the more unusual variants.

This is a work in progress [I've gone through issues 2..110 inclusive, and the others sporadically].

Some simple stats (under review):

Python       51
Javascript   13
PHP          4
Ruby         4
Haskell      3
C            2
Perl         2
Processing   2
Clojure      1
CoffeeScript 1
Emacs Lisp   1
Go           1
HTML         1
Lua          1
Matlab       1
No code (IFTTT etc., regexes, Excel, Word)   1
Objective-C  1
R            1
Shell        1
Standard ML and Celf     1
Twee/twine   1
Visual Basic 1
curl/sed/grep/xargs/sort 1

Programming Language

BASIC - #64 (Chipmunk Basic)
C -- #68, #76
Celf - #143
Clojure - #35
CoffeeScript - #129 [see also: Javascript]
Command-line utilities: #82
Emacs Lisp -- #91
Go - #86
Haskell - #79, #107, this experiment
Javascript - #6, #43, #55, #66, #71, #74, #78, #81, #89, #104, #105, #142 [see also: CoffeeScript]
Java/Processing - see Processing (Java)
Lua - seen in #107, #137
make - in this experiment
Matlab - #124
Node.JS: see JavaScript
Objective-C - #147
Perl - #2, #40
PHP - #57, #78, #97, #102
Processing (Java) - #108, #70
Python - #5, #14, #20, #21, #22, #29, #33, #36, #37, #38, #45, #47, #48, #51, #63, #69, #73, #75, #80, #83, #84, #87, #90, #94 (not complete?), #96, #99, #110, #130
Ruby - #18, #70
Standard ML (SML) - #143
Twine/Twee - #14, #143, #154
zsh - z-shell script, seen in #8

Nocode - using IFTT, Sublime Text, Excel - An attempt without any code - #88

Nocode - see Command-line utilities

Text Language

Most of the novels are "written" in English, but a few are in other languages, some of which don't really exist.

Cat (Feline) - #50
Caw - #115
Crow (avian) - see Caw
D'Skuban (fictional language) - #80, also used in Excerpts from "Appreciating the Great D'skuban Playwrights, Vol. I".
Entish - #136 (internal notes suggest that this is conjectured Entish)
Feline - see Cat (Feline)
Finnish - #67
French - #111
Hawaiian (fake) - #142
Meow - see Cat (Feline)
New Latin - see Pig Latin
Oj Eninco (fictional language) - #68
Pig Latin - #148
Spanish - #95, #130

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Common Novels

Use of Pride and Prejudice:
Use of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass:
Use of Moby Dick: #8, #38, #47, #50, #55, #96, #110, #135, #138

[cpressey]

I'm also sort of interested in this... was thinking of surveying last year's projects too.

I think you can add:

Emacs Lisp -- Swann's Way Through The Night Land
Haskell -- in this experiment
make -- in this experiment -- (does that count??)
BASIC -- EverMore Poetry
C -- Oj Eninco and possibly others

Surely there's been at least one entry in Ruby? I don't know -- searching the issues for "ruby" reveals no hits (except in the resources issue). Ditto Java.

[ikarth]

Clojure - #35 Novel Novel Generator
PHP - #97 Modernist Cuisine Recipes
Haskell - #107 "I encountered him only at rare intervals. I went to him. I had asked him nothing."

Also, it looks like Generated Detective #70 uses at least some Ruby.

Lots using Javascript and Python, including:
JavaScript - #105 TellMeAStory.Today - A tale told in the address bar
Python - #45 Voynich

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Integrated - thanks!

[atduskgreg]

Generated detective is as much (if not more) written in Java using the Processing framework as it is Ruby. Ruby does the sentence selection and the image downloading, Processing sketches do the panel layout, the image processing, the face detection, and the adding of balloons and captions.

[hugovk]

Most of the novels are "written" in English, but a few are in other languages, some of which don't really exist.

#50 50,000 Meows?

(PS Your link to 50 000 Finnish Numbers is broken.)

[hugovk]

French: #111

[hugovk]

Crow/caw: #115

[zachwhalen]

Perl -> #40

[hugovk]

Go: #86

[cpressey]

Matlab: #124

[hugovk]

CoffeeScript: #129

[altuzar]

Python and Spanish: #130

[hugovk]

Entish: #136

[hugovk]

A completed Lua: #137

[robsimmons]

#143 uses Standard ML and Celf, a research-prototype-y logic programming language

[hugovk]

A second Perl: #2

Fake Hawaiian: #142

A second C, generating an unknown tongue: #68

A second PHP: #78

Objective-C: #147

Python generating twee source code, imported into the program Twine: #14

New Latin: #148

No code: IFTTT, Sublime Text, Excel: #88

HTML: #106

curl/sed/grep/xargs/sort: #82

[ceoln]

Wow, I am impressed that the distribution of programming languages is so flat! (What, doesn't everyone still mostly write everything in c? When did that happen? And get off my lawn!!)

[hugovk]

@ceoln This issue shows just a couple of examples for each language. The vast majority used Python.

[cpressey]

What, no Rust? What, no Scala? What, no Dart? What, no Icon? What, no SNOBOL IV? What, no Rebol? What, no C#? What, no J? What, no Factor? What, no assembly? What, no SuperCollider? What, no D? What, no Erlang? What, no Inform? What, no Io? What, no Swift? Ok I'll stop.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, because what I'm about to conjecture consists of guesses upon guesses:

I guess that Python was very popular because I guess that a lot of participants came from the NLP community and I guess that Python is popular in the NLP community because of I guess NLTK.

All's I know is that I had no idea what "i don't know if this is something i can ne_chunk" meant until I installed NLTK (after it was all over.) (Actually, I still don't know what it means, but at least I see where it came from.)

[hugovk]

Code Census Corner

I've totted up the numbers of completed novels using each language (plus or minus):

Python      123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901 = 51
Javascript  1234567890123 = 13
PHP         1234 = 4
Ruby        1234 = 4
Haskell     123 = 3
C           12 = 2
No code (IFTTT, regexes, spreadsheet, Word etc.)   2
Perl        12 = 2
Processing  12 = 2
Clojure     1
CoffeeScript    1
Emacs Lisp  1
Go          1
Lua         1
Matlab      1
Objective-C 1
R           1
Shell       1
Standard ML and Celf    1
Twee/twine  1
Visual Basic    1
curl/sed/grep/xargs/sort    1

[cpressey]

@hugovk Nice. Which one was done in R, btw? I don't see it listed above, and searching the issues for "R" didn't turn up anything that I could identify as R (imagine that...)

[hugovk]

#114 uses Python and R:

I also borrowed some R code and adapted it for my files, to check the t-SNE output there. One of the functions will execute a graphic callback every N iterations, so you can see a plot of the status of the algorithm. To run this (code in my repo), you'll need to make sure you paste (in the unix sense) the words and coordinates files together and then load them into R.

http://blogger.ghostweather.com/2014/11/visualizing-word-embeddings-in-pride.html

#106 is HTML and #82 is curl/sed/grep/xargs/sort.

[cpressey]

Phew, visualization. Here I was thinking someone was doing the actual generation bit in R 😬

[MichaelPaulukonis]

Is HTML a "language" that is used for writing a program that generates output? The markup is HTML, but what created the HTML markup?

Perhaps I should be clearer, then -- languages used in generation, not formatting (which includes LaTex, markdown, HTML, and some other stuff).

[hugovk]

Yep, I left out all the LaTeX and MD. I'll remove the HTML.