So instead of studying, I used the bulk of free time to implement wenyan-lang, finishing the core functionality within three or four days.' 'It was finals week and there were no classes. Eventually I decided that reading more books might be just a euphemism for procrastination, and I needed to just implement it,' Huang says. 'I always put it off and tried to read more books in classical Chinese. It includes a renderer that can display a program in a manner that resembles pages from ancient Chinese texts. He graduated with a degree in computer science and art from Carnegie Mellon University in December.Īfter coming up with the idea for the new language, wenyan-lang, roughly a year ago, Huang finished the core of the language during his last month at school. He also helped create the first and so far only AI-generated Chinese opera. The new language's developer, Lingdong Huang, previously designed an infinite computer-generated Chinese landscape painting.

The world's first programming language based on classical Chinese is only about a month old, and volunteers have already written dozens of programs with it, such as one based on an ancient Chinese fortune-telling algorithm.

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