If coding bores you, maybe you just need to try a different programming language. Perhaps you'll allow us to recommend one but together by Lauri Hartikka—which is themed around Arnold Schwarzenegger.


Called ArnoldC—see what he did there?—it's "an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Schwarzenegger movies." Yes, really.

So, every program has to start ("IT'S SHOWTIME") and stop ("YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED"). To print text you use the command "TALK TO THE HAND"; to declare a variable you type "HEY CHRISTMAS TREE "; while is "STICK AROUND"; return is, obviously, "I'LL BE BACK". And so on, and so on, hilariously.


If you're interested—and of course you are—a full program to print all the numbers from 1 to 10 would look something like this:

IT'S SHOWTIME HEY CHRISTMAS TREE isLessThan10 YOU SET US UP @NO PROBLEMO HEY CHRISTMAS TREE n YOU SET US UP 0 STICK AROUND isLessThan10 GET TO THE CHOPPER n HERE IS MY INVITATION n GET UP 1 ENOUGH TALK TALK TO THE HAND n GET TO THE CHOPPER isLessThan10 HERE IS MY INVITATION 10 LET OFF SOME STEAM BENNET n ENOUGH TALK CHILL YOU HAVE BEEN TERMINATED

You can check it out in full on GitHub. [GitHub via Animal]

Image by Steve Jurvetson under Creative Commons license