[wellylug] Non-standard languages on Linux

jumbophut jumbophut at gmail.com
Wed May 11 23:39:08 NZST 2005


On 5/11/05, David Antliff wrote:
> And then of course there's:
> http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/
> 

Ah yes, esoteric languages.

Befunge -- what were they thinking?!  <http://www.tyrannus.com/befexample.html>

And of course, some idiot had to take it one step further and go 3-D
with trefunge. <http://www.jess2.net/code/funge/> (sort of replaces
Cat's Eye stuff), <http://www.jess2.net/code/funge/code/funged.3f>

Whitespace is another great esoteric language -- anything which is not
whitespace is a comment and therefore ignored.   Makes documentation
very easy!   <http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/index.php>

Intercal, the only language with a 'Come From' statement rather than a
'Goto'. <http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/>

Unlambda, only for the truly, deeply masochistic (because plain lambda
calculus is obviously too easy :-).
<http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/>

Shakespeare, not so much esoteric as just fun.
<http://people.csa.iisc.ernet.in/sreejith/frontends/spl/spl.htm>

Speaking of esoteric, people have written quines for all except
Shakespeare (maybe even for Shakespeare but I haven't found one).


-- 
Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')




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