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Do esoteric programming languages count? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_lan
by 0xfffafaCrash 6y ago
Do esoteric programming languages count?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...
There’s also a fairly huge subculture of abusing things such as Turing completeness (e.g. in CSS) to make tools and languages do things that they were definitely not designed to do. This isn’t just for utilitarian hacking, but also for completely aesthetic reasons (and maybe also for street cred and recognition for one’s mastery of obscure capabilities).
Quines snd especially radiation-hardened quines are basically just art.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
So are things like bogosort:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogosort
- tjchear 6y agoYeah, esoteric languages certainly count! They go against well-established mainstream language concepts and elements. This subculture you're talking about, do they exist as a community somewhere? I knew about Quines, but I've never heard of radiation-hardened quines! That's really fascinating. Conceptually it does mimic radiation-hardened self-reproducing organisms.