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The Osmosian Order of Plain English Programmers
These people (who are we kidding?) this guy cannot be serious. If he were serious, this would be a horrible idea for a language, with a poorly-built compiler, that costs a hundred dollars.
Unless, of course, you know how to read JavaScript.
Seriously. The site attempts to require a credit card before you can download the compiler, but the entire site is done in JavaScript, including the part that redirects the browser to the unrestricted URL where you can download it. Honest!
At first I thought the order form was a joke. I figured the language was amusing and Free, and the download link would just work. Except it didn't. At least, not unless you filled out the order form with your credit card information. Hm.
Then I thought the whole thing must be a joke, and there was no such compiler, except the form actually functioned and made AJAX requests and had error checking for empty fields and denied fake (well, it denied what I gave it, which was obviously fake; I didn't feel like betting a hundred bucks that it would reject valid numbers, too) credit card information. Seems like an awful lot of work for a pretty lame joke.
Not until I looked at the JavaScript (to see how far this shitty joke went) and saw that it does exist was I truly baffled. It appears to make a serious (albeit pathetic) attempt to prevent downloading the compiler unless you provide money.
But it's just so... stupid. I mean....
"If it weren't for my horse...."
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