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LOLCODE is your standard Algol-style programming language (Algol is the grandfather of just about every popular current programming language) married to the lolcat captioning style — that is, ALL CAPS and I CAN HAS SILLY CAT GRAMMER AND SPELING KTHXBYE.Here’s HAI WORLD, the LOLCODE version of “Hello, World!”:

HAI

 CAN HAS STDIO?

 VISIBLE "HAI WORLD!"

 KTHXBYE

Here’s something that outputs the numbers 1 through 10, a classic beginner’s exercise:

HAI

 CAN HAS STDIO?

 I HAS A VAR

 IM IN YR LOOP

 UP VAR!!1

 VISIBLE VAR

 IZ VAR BIGGER THAN 10? KTHXBYE

 IM OUTTA YR LOOP

 KTHXBYE

And finally, here’s a program to print the contents of a specified file:

HAI

 CAN HAS STDIO?

 PLZ OPEN FILE "LOLCATS.TXT"?

 AWSUM THX

 VISIBLE FILE

 O NOES

 INVISIBLE "ERROR!"

 KTHXBYE

“Visible” and “invisible,” “im in ur loop, uppin ur varbls,” and “o noes” included, all the good running jokes are referenced except “mah bucket.” But I’m sure some programmer somewhere will write a quick bit of LOLCODE as a quick ‘n dirty patch.

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