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Esoteric Programming Languages

Posted by michael on from the befunge-befuddled-bewildered dept.

led_belly writes: "I came across this interesting page from the #alt.linux IRC chat room topic (irc.keystreams.com). It is an interesting read for all those who have ever been baffled by why/how some people do things. The Yahoo! Webring listing of similar topics is here."

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  1. Re:My head hurts by Farq+Fenderson · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, you do have to put stuff on the stack in reverse... since it's FI/LO. Breakdown of the program:

    55+
    put 5 on the stack twice, add the numbers on the stack together, leaving 10, or a newline in ascii.

    ".dlrow ,olleH"
    put "Hello, world." on the stack in reverse, this is so we can pop it off in the proper order.

    >:#,_@
    very nice code to print out everything on the stack. '>' sets the IP velocity to "east", ':' duplicates the last item on the stack. '_' pops an item off the stack and tests it, if true, set IP to west, if false set it to east. The # skips the next instruction, and the comma prints the character off. So you're testing and printing until there's nothing left on the stack. The '@', finally, exits, which is executed when there's nothing left on the stack.

    Makes sense?

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    [ approaching AI ]
  2. Re:INTERCAL by stripes · · Score: 5, Informative
    I'd like to see how Intercal is actually used for anything or if it keeps up with other emerging languages. When new (and useful) languages hit the scene, it probably has to drop some features because they're used in that language.

    They don't bother, but the language isn't static. There is a multi-threading extension for example. Typical of Intercal it is unlike all other threading packages I know of. It doesn't share data, only the code, all messages must be passed by altering the code (disabling and enabling blocks). Trintercal is base-3, there is also a base-N variant (the base-3 one shares some ops with the Klingon programming language...)

  3. What about var'aq? by The+Ape+With+No+Name · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's right a Klingon programming language. Waaaaaaa! As far from Perl as one can get....

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    Comparing it to Windows will be a moot point, since El Dorado is going to have a 40% larger code base than XP.
  4. The Beer Page. by Christopher+Thomas · · Score: 5, Informative

    No list of esoteric programming languages would be complete without a link to the Beer Page:

    http://core.federated.com/~jim/99/ (mirror)

    This is a collection of programs written in over 200 languages designed to print the canonical "99 bottles of beer on the wall" song.