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Esoteric Programming Languages

Towers of Hanoi Solver in Piet

Earlier this week I found this interesting list of esoteric programming languages someone had created. Piet in particular really appealed to me, the programs are images that look like abstract paintings. The language is named after Piet Mondrian, a Dutch artist who painted geometric abstract pieces of art. The image at the top of this post is a valid Piet program, it solves the Towers of Hanoi problem. If you want to play with Piet you can download an interpreter such as npiet.

CoH Server Status RSS Feed

CoH, CoV and RSS Logos

I noticed yesterday that the EU CoH servers have an RSS feed for their server status (as well as on the website) but the US servers only have a page on the website, no RSS feed. I thought an RSS feed would be handy so I spent some time yesterday and today writing a PHP script to generate one from the site data already available. :)

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