Born on Monday, drafted on Wednesday, version 1.0 rolled out on Friday.

LOLCODE.

In a remarkable example of the power of geek-hive-mind in action a new programming language burst onto the scene just last month.

The language was birthed on May 25th 2007 [linky], the site was launched on May 31st, lolcode.com and by mid June there was a v1.0 spec created, the vision of the purpose of the language was refined and there were 4 or 5 compiler projects under way for different development environments.

Incredible.

It has already found a couple of purposes. 

1. to be funny
2. potentially to be a entry level programming language for noobs.  Kinda a replacement for BASIC. 

Here is a little example I whipped up to whet your whistle.

HAI	
CAN HAS STDIO?

SO IM LIKE REVVRZTRIN WITH yurwrrd

	I HAS A mahwrrd!!"" 
	I HAS A yurwrrdnum!!WTF IZ LEN yurwrrd?
	BTW this is probably not the correct syntax
	
	IM IN UR LOOP WAITIN TIL yurwrrdnum IZ LESSER THAN 0	
	
		mahwrrd!!mahwrrd N  yurwrrdnum IN MAH yurwrrd
		BTW again not the right syntax
		
		NERF yurwrrdnum
	IM OUTTA YR LOOP
	
	I FOUND MAH mahwrrd
	
KTHXBYE


I HAS A yurwrrd
GIMMEH yurwrrd

VISIBLE REVVRZTRIN WITH yurwrrd
KTHXBYE

I'm not sure if I get the whole cat thing...but that's ok.