Talk:Chef (programming language)

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I wonder, has anyone actually tried to prepare this recipie? --198.164.135.31 11:59, 6 May 2005 (UTC)


 * Sorry to give this comment late, but a mixed of raw fish, potato, mustard and lard would almost certainly give you awful food poisoning.  smurray   inchester ( User ), ( Talk ) 22:35, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

zucchini and the potatoes need additional treatment
I think the zucchini and the potatoes need additional treatment. I suggest to reserve liquifying (or frying for more transparency) for the first, and e.g. cutting them to the classical French fries form for the latter. &mdash; MFH: Talk 19:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thus, imho the correct method is:

Method. Put potatoes into the mixing bowl. Cut contents of the mixing bowl into thin stripes. Put dijon mustard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put red salmon into the mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put water into the mixing bowl. Put zucchinis into the mixing bowl 2. Liquefy contents of the mixing bowl 2. Pour contents of mixing bowl 2 into (default) mixing bowl. Put oil into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put lard into the mixing bowl. Put eggs into the mixing bowl. Put haricot beans into the mixing bowl. Pour contents of the mixing bowl into the baking dish. Bake the dish until the expected flavour is perceptible.

In fact I don't know the language well, but according to the plural 's' in the description, several mixing bowls seem available. Else, the zucchinis could be put into the baking dish (or frying pan, maybe together with (i.e. after) the olive oil), heated up to make them transparent (even if this would make shrink them to the size of a comma), and then poured on top of the mixing bowl.

(I think I'd prefer the latter version. Mmmmh !)  &mdash; MFH: Talk 19:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

PS: the haricots should not be chosen "extra-fine" but a rather big species (capital, in some sense) for reasons of esthetics of the final presentation; b.t.w. this does not entail that they would be less tasty.

How this program actually works
To me, this article seems to imply that the phrase "hello world" because of the way the variable names are arranged.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe, from what I got from reading the Chef website, that what characters are ouput is determined by the numeric value in the variable, which when liquefied, is used as a Unicode point. It seems to me like those variables are named the way they are mostly for visual effect.

Again, correct me if I'm wrong.
 * Computer guy57 23:31, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. That part may be misleading... I'll try to rewrite it
 * FiP Как вы думаете? 13:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC)