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Ultra High Level Programming Language

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I already have a language like that, but instead of just text it takes in text and money and turns it into code. It's also pretty slow for a language, taking up to several months depending on the complexity of the problem.

Here's my algorithm:

1. Parse the program input with a lexical analyzer that:

   i. Loops through each character.

   ii. Appends it to a buffer.

2. Submit the lexed program to eLance with a 7-week bid.

   i. If someone with at least one project completed bids on it, continue.

  ii. If no one responds by the 7th day, return an error: "Syntax error in program. Please recode."

3. Accept the bid.

4. while(!checkIfIndianSentCompletedProjectFiles() && isTakingLessThanTwoMonths()) Sleep(1);

5. if (!isTakingLessThanTwoMonths()) return a run-time error: "Temporal stack overflow."

6. else print resultant code.

It takes a long time to compile some projects, but it's reasonable, since it is after all a very, very high level programming language.

Nice. I notice that unlike most algorithms I've read, this one requires a credit card number as an input. :)

If you can sell 2% of the company for $1,000, doesn't that imply a $50,000 pre-money valuation?

$1,000 for 2% implies a $49k pre-money valuation. Either way, Matt's math is off.

$1000 = $50000 * 2%

I know. That'd give a post-money valuation of $51k, though, giving you a little less than 2% of the company in the end.

If I pay $1 for 20% of your stock, I'm saying your company is worth $5. I now have 20% worth $1. You have 80% worth $4.

Suppose my company is worth $5 right now. If you give my company $1, it is now worth $6. ($5 assets before + $1 cash). $1 / $6 = 1/6th of the company; you have 1/6th and I have 5/6ths. If you pay $1 for 20% of the stock, that implies a $4 pre-money valuation--after adding the $1, the company is worth $5, so your share is worth 20% and mine is 80%.

The downmods are misplaced. You're absolutely right mathwise here, you're just missing a heretofore unspoken detail.

The assumption is that in an angel or VC round you'll create new shares for the investor to own. If there were no new shares, pre-money valuation would always equal post-money valuation (you're just selling shares) and all of your explanation would be fine.

$50,000 doesn't sound as humorous in context as $48,000. I realized the numbers were a tad off.

This article is fluff. Insider fluff as Matt Maroon got funded by YC, but fluff nonetheless.

Tcl already does this:

http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/131.html

Give Charles Simonyi at Intentional Software a call, he should be in a position to bid for the elance job;-)

http://www.intentsoft.com/

I actually know someone very well who knows him very well. Maybe I'll do that.

this is funny, i read the other post and clicked through to see the last name maroon naming convention and I immediately thought of matt maroon, then he commented on it.

hope you take over the world. should have included cloning myspace.

  <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
  <html lang="en">
      <head>
          <title>Maroon Demo</title>
  		<script src="jquery-1.2.3.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  		<script type="text/javascript">
  		$(document).ready(function(){$("#ebay").text("Shop Victoriously!");});
  		</script>
      </head>
      <body>
  		<div id="ebay"></div>
      </body>
  </html>

Let me know what your paypal address is so I can request money :)

themaroon hotmail.com. Send me $100 so that I know it's you and can reply.

check's in the mail... cheers!

//My first Maroon program Make me a "Hello, World!" program, written in Maroon.

My first Maroon program:

"Make me a compiler for Maroon."

My second Maroon program:

"Make me a time machine to send the first Maroon program back to February 2008."

See? Nothing to it.

Offtopic: Suggestion to the tip guys: Can you take me to the tipxxx page on the second click. People might want to know how the button works. Or was that a conscious choice?

The star now links to http://tipjoy.com

We're debating making things more explicit. Hopefully the copy text is enough for most people "Like this? Leave a tip: [tip this]"

We're going to make that customizable soon.

One word: brainz...

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