There is no such thing as a good language or a bad language an an absolute sense. There are only languages that provide you with more leverage towards a certai

There is no such thing as a good language or a bad language an an absolute sense. There are only languages that provide you with more leverage towards a certain goal and languages that provide you with less. Is brainfuck a good language or a bad one? If your goal is to write a high performance back-end for a web site, it's probably bad. If your goal is to pass some time trying to solve an intellectually challenging puzzle, it's probably good. But in general programming is viewed as something one does in order to achieve some practical purpose, not just to while away the hours. And with respect to that goal, "seek out weird languages" seems like a poor heuristic to me.