[HN Gopher] Folders.py: a language with no code and just folders
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       Folders.py: a language with no code and just folders
        
       Author : tentacleuno
       Score  : 87 points
       Date   : 2022-01-12 22:53 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | cultureulterior wrote:
       | I'm disappointed that it is not using inode ordering
        
       | tmountain wrote:
       | Probably Turing Complete. Good enough for me.
        
       | ape4 wrote:
       | Finally ;)
        
       | togaen wrote:
       | amazing
        
       | savant_penguin wrote:
       | So, what would a quine look like
        
       | klyrs wrote:
       | The perfect language for Plan9
        
       | chubot wrote:
       | The best way to generate code in this language is with a shell
       | script :)
        
       | tonyg wrote:
       | Lambda calculus as folder structure:
       | https://twitter.com/leastfixedpoint/status/13313090684772065...
        
       | can16358p wrote:
       | Coming next: a Vscode compiler/transpiler extension that converts
       | JavaScript to mkdir commands.
        
       | klowin wrote:
       | Here is the original Folders esolang:
       | https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Folders/
        
         | awb wrote:
         | > Folders is a Windows language. In Windows, folders are
         | entirely free in terms of disk space!
         | 
         | They can't be _entirely_ free, can they? Doesn't the structure
         | have to be persisted on disk somewhere?
        
           | tentacleuno wrote:
           | It seems to be a common misconception. When you right click
           | an empty folder in Windows Explorer, it says the size is 0KB.
        
             | bmm6o wrote:
             | If that means 0 kb in terms of sectors allocated, I would
             | believe it. But the name has to be stored somewhere, right?
             | It's just that the dialog doesn't account for that (and the
             | acl, I'd guess).
             | 
             | Or am i missing that this is a joke?
        
               | awb wrote:
               | Maybe it displays 0kb because an empty folder is only a
               | few bytes?
        
               | sva_ wrote:
               | I think NTFS stores the names in a block at the beginning
               | of the partition, with a reference to another block in
               | the back which holds the contents. And it only reads
               | those contents for size.
        
       | baaym wrote:
       | I'm going to guess that git is not your VCS of choice for this
       | language
        
         | nsxwolf wrote:
         | Perforce seems ideal.
        
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