Had a wonderfully meandering conversation with Sean (@adventofcomp.bsky.social) on #esolangs: INTERCAL-72 (we'd published the original compiler source code last year), the blandening of mainstream langs, and touching on the book (ostensibly the subj of the podcast) www.youtube.com/watch?v=utla...

Daniel Temkin: Forty-Four Esolangs

Hey #FOSDEM and #GPN folks: I’ll be talking #esolangs this Friday night at ZKM; a reading and lively discussion of esoteric programming. Free, 6pm, Karlsruhe! zkm.de/en/2026/02/d...

“What happens when programming languages aim not at functionality, but at irritation, reflection, or poetry?”

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Are there hand-drawn programming languages?
Without OCR or any kind of shape or symbol recognition.
Where lines somehow actually describe processing.
Like water in a channel.
No-ops may be optimized at runtime.
IO and math and memory allocation and binary encodings may possibly be difficult to […]

A series of red, green and blue photos with description of how they work as source code

The Rivulet programming language; looks like squiggles

Me presenting, view from up in the bleachers

Just de-installed this work from a Dec talk at P&T Knitwear — they understood the book as a starting place to understand language design as a creative practice and let me bring some of that experience to the space #esolangs

a programming language where you declare variables like this:

Let's say we have an integer, 10, a numberOfPlayers, if you will.

#esolang #esolangs #esolangIdea

The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding Esolangs, or esoteric programming languages, highlight the hidden metaphors and conventions that structure mainstream programming.

. . . . hadn’t considered hiding metalayer #puzzles inside the #gameloop until I read about #esolangs by #danieltemkin

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-hacker-f...

I’m on a podcast this morning with Sam Arbesman about my book what I’ve learned about #esolangs. With my show opening today I’m too anxious to watch or listen to myself but here you all go m.youtube.com/watch?v=Liln...

5 Most Bizzare Programming languages You Won’t Believe Exist. Every programmer knows the pain of debugging for hours, only to find out it was a typo in a variable name. But no ! That wasn’t enough…

5 Most Bizzare Programming languages You Won’t Believe Exist. Every programmer knows the pain of debugging for hours, only to find out it was a typo in a variable name. But no ! That wasn’t e...

#humor #esolangs #programming #education #creativity

Origin | Interest | Match

Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke Concocted by sicko programmers, esolangs are the high comedy of the coding world. They test my patience.

Why program in Brainfuck, Piet, or INTERCAL? 🤯
They're not just jokes—they’re art & experiments 🎨💡
Esoteric languages push what coding can be 🔍
Some are genius, most just fun 🎭

#Esolangs #TechArt #Cybersecurity #ITOps #Programming #Code
www.wired.com/story/machin...

A program in the esoteric programming language Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic that increments the value stored in a memory cell.

Excerpt from a "Hello, world!" program in the esoteric programming language Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic.

Niels Serup
Half-Broken Car in Heavy Traffic
2011

esolangs.org/wiki/Half-Br...

Proved Turing-complete by Eckankar@GitHub in 2020.

#esolang #esolangs #programminglanguages #randomness #nightmare #bloodyawful #turingcomplete

SMITH An assembly-like language with no jumps or branches whatsoever.

Cat's Eye Technologies
SMITH
2000

A language with no branches or jumps can still be Turing-complete if its programs can modify themselves indefinitely.

codeberg.org/catseye/SMIT... #esolang #esolangs #programminglanguages #selfmodifying

Cat's Eye Technologies Chris Pressey's modest esolang concern; serves as a database and gallery of open-source projects, primarily esoteric programming languages.

THE FEELING WHEN you replace ancient and crufty "Twitter card" code on your website with OpenGraph metadata, and fix the preview image.

Next step: actually serving different, appropriate preview images for different pages.

catseye.tc #esolangs #programminglanguages #automata #codeart

Forty-Four Esolangs: final review, 12/9/2024

43. A hands-free programming language / one writes code by whistling the tones of the algorithm

Final edits for Forty-Four #Esolangs. Last language of the book: you code by whistling, for truly hands-free programming

Code as Art Computer programming as an art form in and of itself

"The human desire to be creative and express one's individuality does not end where a keyboard begins... code can be used as a medium to create art, but it can also be art itself."

https://buff.ly/3WX3UfM

#programming #software #esolangs #ioccc #genai #cleancode #codegolf #art #visualart

WORDHACK Featuring talks by: Laurel Schwulst Daniel Temkin The HTML Review Hosted By Todd Anderson Thurs, May 16 7pm - 10pm Wonderville 1186 Broadway, Bk $15 ~ Ages 21+

Thurs night I'll be sharing three in-progress #esolangs that incorporate natural language (but not through obvious AI stuff).

Super excited to share; it's all new work and very different from what I've made in the past