Esoteric programming languages ​​are fun-up to kill the joke

Some programming languages Helped to send the man to the moon, some I am in New Leukemia Druns, and some exist only to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a “esoteric language” minimalist, or “esolang”, made up of eight non-alphabetical characters. The esolanga are experimental, intentionally question and intentionally douper-paint-painted languages ​​to push code boundaries (and their buttons). In brainfuck, part of the basic program “hello, the world” look like . I am <-. <.? +++. ------ .--, that makes each normal person mean "Goodbye, the world."

Most esolangs don’t even look at computer code. Here’s one way to print “Hi” to the Shakespeare’s program language:

The whole of the world’s program.

Hamlet, a melancholy prince.
Ophelia, the voice of the machine.

To act: 1.
Scene: 1.

(Insert Hamlet and Ophelia)

Ophelia: You are so sweet as the sum of a very nice beautiful brail noble and a happy gentle gold king. Talk your mind!

Hamlet: You’re beautiful as the sum of beautiful beautiful beautiful beautiful of the summer day and a delicious delicious delicious pink. I’m so beautiful as the sum of yourself and a flower. Talk your mind!

(Exit)

Basically Hamlet and Ophelia are “variables” to which numeric values ​​were assigned. The names “and” king “one have a +1 value and” beautiful “that matches the ASCII characters and” for OPHELIA. “Talk to your mind!” Print them. “

Isolangs can also have more unhinged by that. On the Exolang skyckiYou’ll find a list of at least 6,000 of these tongue of languages ​​and counting. As a Korean, I am amused from !, an esolang that exists programs to be written in Korean grammatically. Then there is white space, an invisible language consisting of things as spaces and tabs. If you develop more color, there is piet (such as in Monrian), which “code is composed of 20 colors arranged on a grid, produce programs that look like abstract. I am Some exoligns are also “foolish-complete,” mean they can be theory c ++ languages ​​and can make me a 12-course cuts).

But you drive together, start wondering what all these brains are good for. Playing around them, in one one one one a one ithuousant and irritating, as the colle stars, and pics rearing only for the deep hell of it. In their book Gimmick’s theoryLiterary criticism says the gimmicks-everything from the duchamp’s Fountain to google glass-are “working too little but also working too hard.” They put in minimum effort but they ask to be noted. All in all, the gimmicks can be “rescue” safe “who jump hard work necessary to create something with real substance.

So: are esolangs gimmicks?

Programmers have I have always been sick, so he is not surprising that the esolanga are emerging before in our story. In 1972, two prienger students, Donald Woods and James Dry, has created the compiler language without an acronym. Remains one of the most fully flying-out-out-langs around, with 20-page Reference manual-The parody of ibm-laced documentation with comedy and sadism. Intercale regret if not including enough cases of the word please but also refuse programs if you use the word too. Finish a program with pleasure to give up.