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The author's Olympus language is amusing, programs are expressed as prayers to ancient Greek gods. https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/Olympus/

It reminded me of an overambitious educational game idea: The player builds interpreters for prayers directed at several gods, each cult having its own theurgic practices resembling different programming paradigms: https://gashlin.net/blog/pages/2010-12-25-shell-script-of-th...

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I was interested by the Olympus language when I saw it in TFA, but I'm a little sad that the authors website doesn't have even a basic spec. I still cant tell if the epithets are syntactic, or you just need some amount of them, like PLEASE in intercal

EDIT: According to https://esolangs.org/wiki/Olympus, you need more epithets if the line of code is more demanding (?), and you need to use varying ones, but other than that they aren't syntactic

Yes, you build a command in pieces, breaking it down so as not to seem too petty to the gods in any single line of code. The longer the request, the more praise must be given, but also you can’t repeat yourself too much (if you call Ariadne “mistress of the labyrinth” the first time, the second time you might instead call her “wise and cunning one whose agile mind finds purchase on the frailest of notions.” The project is here: https://github.com/rottytooth/Olympus and here’s an introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agq99SyHfFw

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