This would be a unique book - perhaps someone has done it : Put
together a "Life Rules" book but written in a psuedo-programming
language. There's no reason that all of psychology, philosophy
and all the "how to be happy" stuff couldn't be written in this
way. And perhaps on some future day, at some future time, a
future programmer will put the instructions into an artificial
intelligence situation and then the truth of it could be tested
scientifically - and tweaked and modded until he or she finally
discovers, once and for all, "The Secret of Happiness". "