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20 Intriguing, Unusual, and Goofy Programming Languages
Below is my curated list of 20 interesting, beautiful, and disorienting programming languages. Most of these are considered “esoteric” though some of them are actually used by serious programmers on a regular basis. See if you can tell which are which…
- brainfuck
- chicken
- legit
- Malbolge
- APL
- (D♭, D♭♭, and) Velato
- Piet
- Whitespace
- INTERCAL
- Unary Except Every Zero Is Replaced with the Title of This Programming Language or, Alternately, Is Replaced with the Smallest Counter-Example to the Goldbach Conjecture. Compilers and Interpreters Only Have to Implement the Former Option
- Seed (and Befunge)
- LISP
- Funciton
- ///
- Factory
- golfing languages
- languages with 2-dimensional source code
- languages which emphasise source code aesthetics
- languages built so that the source code looks like ___
- Q#…
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