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I think “esoteric” is meant for brainfuck, maldbrot and similar. D, nim and co, are quite traditional in language design languages, just not popular (yet).

yau8edq12i 3y ago
> esoteric > 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite > 2. belonging to the select few Just because some people give special meaning to the phrase "esoteric programming language," doesn't mean that people who don't know about it should be chastised for not knowing the... esoteric meaning of the phrase. This reeks of "my club uses this adjective only for this occasion, you're not using it right, you don't belong to the club, go away".
- trealira 3y ago
  It seems to me less like some elitist exclusionary thing, and more like they're objecting to the idea that if a language isn't within top 10 programming languages used, it must be esoteric and only weirdos and enthusiasts use it.
- falserum 3y ago
  > Chastise > punish, especially by beating. I know, education is though these days. Here, take some more beating: > An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke. … The creators of most esolangs do not intend them to be used for mainstream programming, … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag... And the death blow, by a fun fact: week has 7 days because babylonians named them after seven planets - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupyter, Venus, Saturn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_wee...

yau8edq12i 3y ago

> esoteric > 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite > 2. belonging to the select few Just because some people give special meaning to the phrase "esoteric programming language," doesn't mean that people who don't know about it should be chastised for not knowing the... esoteric meaning of the phrase. This reeks of "my club uses this adjective only for this occasion, you're not using it right, you don't belong to the club, go away".

trealira 3y ago
It seems to me less like some elitist exclusionary thing, and more like they're objecting to the idea that if a language isn't within top 10 programming languages used, it must be esoteric and only weirdos and enthusiasts use it.
falserum 3y ago
> Chastise > punish, especially by beating. I know, education is though these days. Here, take some more beating: > An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke. … The creators of most esolangs do not intend them to be used for mainstream programming, … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag... And the death blow, by a fun fact: week has 7 days because babylonians named them after seven planets - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupyter, Venus, Saturn. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_wee...