Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Some programming languages Helped people send people to the moon, some cooking new leukemia and some are available to fuck with you. Brainfuck, “Esolang”, “Esolang” or “Esolang” consisting of only eight alphabet characters. Esolangs Experimental, intentional difficult languages ​​(and buttons) for use for use for use for jockey and use. A part of the main “Hello” program in Brainfuck likes . <-. <. +++. ------ .---, wants to say any normal person "kind, world".

Most esolangs don’t even look like a computer code. One way to write “hello” in Shakespeare programming language:

A program of the whole world.

Hamlet, a princess of a melancholy.
Ophelia, the sound of the car.

ACT: 1.
Scene: 1.

[Enter Hamlet and Ophelia]

Ophelia: You are a beautiful honest handsome daring peaceful noble lord and a summer of a happy delicate golden king. Talk to your mind!

Hamlet: You are as beautiful as the only favorite beautiful beautiful cute summer day and delicious sweet delicious flower. You are as beautiful as you yourself and a flower. Talk to your mind!

[Exeunt]

Basically, Hamlet and Ophelia are “variables”, where numerical values ​​are set. “Lord” and “The king’s” nouns are like “sweet” and “sweet” and “beautiful” and “beautiful”, as “beautiful” and “H” are a value like “H” and “I”. “Talk to your mind!” prints them.

Esolangs can be even more miserable. On Esolang wikiYou will find a list of at least 6000 of these farewell vocabulary and counting. As a Korean, I admire!, An esolang that requires Korea’s grammatically written properly. Then there is an invisible language consisting of things like gaps, gaps and icons. If you are more colorful, the “code” consists of 20 colors, which is built on a network of “code” Programs resembling abstract paintings. Some Esolangs can even do everything “TURING-OK”, everything intended can do everything that can do more responsible like C ++ or Python (anything you can use a letter key to prepare a 12-course basket).

But he came together, and you start to see why all this brain documents are good. Together with them, it is fun and irritating, with countless clones, in existing languages ​​(with brackets, but braces) and only languages ​​created for solutions. In his book Gimmick theoryLiterary Critic Sianne NGAI says everything from Gimmicks-Duchamp Fence Google Glass- “Works very little, but also works hard.” They made a minimum of effort, but they asked to be noticed. In general, gimmicks can be a “labor saving” cheat that jumps the hard work you need to create something with the real substance.

So: esolangs gimmicks?

We have programmers I’ve always been sick, so the Esolangs is not surprising that it occurs early in our history. In 1972, two princeton students, Donald Woods and James Lyon, created the language of pronounced abbreviation or intercal (natural). 20-page remains one of the most fully planted eso-langgs around, Referencebook– Parody of IBM documents related to comedy and sadism. Kollakal SCO companies Please have not included sufficient patterns of the keyword, if you use the words very much, it also rejects programs. Please refuse do you cancel a program.