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=== Chef === Chef is a [[stack-oriented programming language]] created by [[David Morgan-Mar]], designed to make programs look like [[Recipe|cooking recipes]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Cozens|first=Simon|title=Advanced Perl programming|year=2005|publisher=O'Reilly Media|isbn=978-0-596-00456-9|page=269|quote=A final Acme curiosity, and one of my favourites, is Acme::Chef, an implementation of David Morgan-Mar's Chef programming language. In Chef, programs are expressed in the form of recipes: ...}}</ref> Programs consist of a title, a list of variables and their data values, and a list of stack manipulation instructions.<ref name="chef">{{cite web|url=https://dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef.html|title=Chef|work=DM's Esoteric Programming Languages|first=David|last=Morgan-Mar|publisher=Self-published|date=2011-03-24|access-date=2023-05-01}}</ref> A joking design principle states that "program recipes should not only generate valid output, but be easy to prepare and delicious", and Morgan-Mar notes that an example [["Hello, World!" program]] with 101 eggs and {{cups|111|US}} oil would produce "a lot of food for one person."<ref name="chef"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://dangermouse.net/esoteric/chef_hello.html|title=Chef - Hello World|work=DM's Esoteric Programming Languages|first=David|last=Morgan-Mar|publisher=Self-published|date=2014-06-28|access-date=2023-05-01}}</ref>
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