Example Code
So, having ADHD is one of those things that for the most part, I feel like goes in the same category of detail as my favorite color: it is practically inconsequential to who I am as a person and how I go about my life.
Yet, at times I catch myself having an ADHD moment that I can't deny. I'll end up writing daydreams into, for example, whatever code I am working on...
It happens seemingly at random. Something will trigger a spiraling thought, and I'll get caught inside of an imaginary scenario that will rapidly expand with even the slightest provocation. It's not a negative thing, most of the time. It's how I can dive so deeply and so completely into a topic of research. I have learned to mostly harness it to be my tool rather than my defect. Sometimes though, I can't control it, or where it goes. It can happen at any time and in any place in my life. Sometimes it becomes a text to a friend. Sometimes it becomes a very weird attempt at writing song lyrics, which I then delete. Occasionally, if I'm on a real roll, it'll end up becoming a whole blog post...
And if this happens to coincide with a moment I am writing some kind of example documentation, then, there it finds itself. Thus, in what feels like an instant — without any experienced time gap between what I am doing and my next moment back in control — I have magically composed some kind of spasmodically imagined story. I do often feel depleted after this happens, but sometimes, what I have written is funny enough to me that I can't help but appreciate these strange moments of creative inspiration... and that is how I end up with a "Hello, World" example for my Cordial language which looks like this one.
let w = "World."fn alpha (subject, supplicant, message) { let text = "Hey, 'sup, " + subject + "! You are looking hot as hell today, damn, girl!" text = text + "You got the sexiest little tan lines on your fit little shoulders. Like if a twig used a toothpick as a bra strap..." text = text + "Damn, now I'm thinking about how hard wood is, and how hot you are, and I'm thinking about how those things might relate, girl. Damn. Ehm, but, I am a mere vector before you, as I am but a guiding bro-wing today a wind to help glide in for my bro-man, you know, my best bro-friend over there, " + supplicant text = text + "! He wanted me to help introduce him, and I think he has got the right idea, just look at the two of you sexy minks! He just wanted to tell you, \"" + message + "\", but... look, let me tell you — just look into those bro-eyes of his — and you'll see: I think what my friend is really trying to express is how damn beautiful you are..." text = text + " I mean, my God, just look at that body! Such a slim frame, yet you got that fit, tight, cute lil' tummy, I know you work for that, so, respect where respect is due. No doubt, my most closethis brothesis over there has impeccable taste." text = text + " Like, damn girl, how many crunches can you do? Damn, 350 max? I bet you could do more, you just gotta keep pushing, you could make that 6 pack an 8 easily, I bet! I love going to the gym..." text = text + " Oh, hey, speaking of, have you ever been hang gliding? No? The three of us should go some time! I think you'd love it. Nah, don't worry about it, I've done it like a thousand times. Most of the time, you can just tuck and roll right through it, easy. Yeah, exactly like parkour! I see you are a woman of fine culture, you got the brawn and the brains!" text = text + " Fr tho, I do sometimes hit some sharp rocks, that's life, my dove, and this too can be glorious! Cuz even when I crash, I don't get hurt. I just reincarnate again in a burst of flames. Yeah, like a phoenix! You get it. I'll keep y'all safe and sound." text = text + " Nah, that whole death thing, it's a scam, babes. Just gotta keep it real, ya' know? Reincarnation? Baaaah, anyone can do it, trust me! That's just corporate propaganda, the whole death scare. It's still unpleasant though — that walk from the underworld? — Well, there's one good thing about it: glutes! You don't get glutes like mine without a few trips back from hell, I can tell you that much!" text = text + " Check this out, I can make each one of my cheeks oscillate in either a CW or CCW motion at any frequency! I have been calibrating the timing of my cycle lengths to an atomic clock for millions of years, I can achieve a minimum precision of 1e-6 Hz and produce a stable oscillator running anywhere from 0.1 Hz to 10 GHz continuously for a minimum of 2 days without ever losing my absolute synchronicity, or breaking a sweat. I'm essentially equal in precision to a temperature compensated crystal oscillator!" text = text + " I can actually go up to 200YHz if anyone's around to blast my cheeks with a garden hose to provide the required cooling, without which, I would heat up the surrounding molecules too rapidly, igniting them, and my perfect 4.5% body fat would become plasma, seed to the subsequent cataclysm, and turn my robust rotating rotundities into rapidly expanding quantum napalm explosions, which then would instantaneously transition into an unstable vaporous soup of molecular remains, and under the continued friction and pressure it would have nowhere to displace the energy fast enough to stop it, and this would cause a chain reaction, where every neighboring atom would collapse under the same conditions as the first ones did, and on and on, the next atom would pick up the last one's desperate attempts to displace what would, already, amount to a substantial fraction of total energy radiated by our Sun, and be consumed as well." text = text + " It is without containment, and nothing can stop it once it begins. It cannot be halted by any mortal or immortal being, myself included, and as such, would not cease until the universe had been consumed, eventually reaching near infinite temperatures as the expanding plasmodic soup of all mass continues to expand, then collapse, too heavy to hold against gravity, and too energetic to be gamma wave radiation, akin to a collapsing neutron star but without a limit to its available mass, continued, all the way to the boundaries of space and time itself, then, finally, it would evaporate my human form, and then it would collapse, temporarily sated by the suspension of my physical form." text = text + " It would then settle to a completely regularly spaced grid of photons, larger than Quentallian Googolplexian universes in 3 dimensions, yet, in reality, continues exponentially in its volume as it approaches the 15th dimension, though, not quite reaching it as there are some bugs with dimensions 15-1435353, but it continues after that point to exceed infinity by exactly the mass of one shed tear I let fall down my cheek as I witness the total destruction of all worlds. It was really lonely the last time." text = text + " Took quite a while before there was anyone to hang out with like my broman, " + supplicant + "over there, so, I insist on keeping it to a cool 100GHz clock rate, at which point though, my precision is only within 0.02 Hz." text = text + " If you really wanna see it tho, if you have a garden hose, of course, I could probably show you for a fraction of a microsecond. Of course, you'll need to stay behind a magnetic field strong enough to contain a collapsing neutron star, and at a distance of about 113.6 AU, and all of this galaxy will be destroyed, along with all the rest of the Andromeda cluster and several of its neighboring clusters in the group containing the planet we reside on. Aka, Earth, our " + w text } // The alpha has no social anxiety, // and therefore, can be used to introduce // the `supplicant` to our `subject` and // relay to them whatever message // they'd like to give them... /= alpha("Janessa", "Todd", "Your choice of garment is irregular, and yet, it does not subtract from my opinion of you as a person, despite how uncouth it makes you seem. This, too, is irregular. Would you like to go on a date, and see a movie with me? I am allergic to butter, but I can usually be around it without experiencing more than hives, so long as it does not touch me. I would, of course, prefer strongly that you do not eat any. Perhaps we could share a root beer or, a box of candies? I think it could be interesting to watch you eat things, do you think that is also irregular? I hope you do not think so, or if you do, find this irregularity as curious as I find you.")I know what you're probably thinking, and you'd be 100% correct. Yes, I have read the Three-Body Problem series, and it was certainly stylistically inspired by it! Good eye!
- Jess <3