I asked ChatGPT to write “Hello, World!” in different esoteric programming
languages:
Kylix:
`program HelloWorld; `
` begin WriteLn('Hello, World!'); `
`end.`
ActionScript (Flash 8):
`trace("Hello, World!");`
Limbo:
`include "sys.m"; `
`include "draw.m"; `
`include "arg.m"; `
`draw->init(nil, "hello"); `
`sys->print("Hello, World!\n");`
Alef:
`include "sys.m"; `
`include "draw.m"; `
`init(nil, nil); `
`write("Hello, World!\n");`
Alef was the predecessor of Limbo, which is the ancestor of Go. The results are
not even close. ActionScript not even close. Kylix was wrong too. None of them
are way out there. If anyone has worked on Plan 9 then they have heard of Alef
and Limbo. Limbo is used for Inferno OS which was created from Plan 9 for set
top boxes and came out about the same time as Java. What ChatGPT gave are not
even starting points, except maybe Kylix and it derived the answer given from
Delphi.
