Olympus: The Programming Language Where You Pray to Greek Gods

Olympus: Correcting the power dynamic of code (2024)

Olympus is a programming language where code is written as prayers to Greek gods like Zeus, Athena, and Hades. Each god handles a specific task: Zeus creates functions, Mnemosyne declares variables, Ariadne manages branching, and Hades performs garbage collection. The language uses a PEG grammar and requires flattery to gain favor—annoy Zeus and he ignores your program. It predates LLMs but anticipates their textual, out-of-order code descriptions.