[dba-Tech] Interesting languages

Oh that is hilarious... Muppetlabs no less. I must warn you I will share
this. I have some geeky friends who would pass a sandwich through their nose
if they read the write up on BF.

Reading up on ASIC makes me remember all the levels of compiling and linking
libraries that had to be done when doing programming... we are so spoiled
today with almost instant error gratification... the error results are
actually readable. In those days you had to go though a whole series of
scripts and it took about 30 minutes to realize you were screwed. Errors
would show up in multiple ways; sometimes a compiler error message,
sometimes the compiler would just quit and sometimes your whole computer
would lock up. ;-)

Jim
 

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Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2010 2:34 PM
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How can he not have included brainf*ck :-)

http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/bf/


And for less esoteric, how about ASIC?   Only 80 commands, but you could d a
lot with it.
I actually wrote a few useful programs in it including a TSR Popup Calendar.
Talk about 
small executables -  optimising code then was a challenge of reducing the
executable by 
single bytes :-)

http://publish.uwo.ca/~jkiernan/asicinfo.htm


-- 
Stuart

On 27 May 2010 at 7:47, Jim Lawrence wrote:

> Have you ever wondered about some of the programming languages out there?
> Why were they created and what are they for. Most seem to have been
created
> by a team of post graduate programmers who were writing a thesis but most
> were developed in-house by a project team for a specific mechanical,
> engineering or scientific purpose...and escaped.
> 
> When I seemed to have more time and more energy I would constantly
> downloading and playing with one of these languages or other and even
ending
> up inflicting some client with a POS application that probably only a
> handful of people in the world know what they are looking at. It is fun
but
> it is not fair... in the long run... I doubt whether I will live much over
a
> hundred and then they will be truly screwed. 
> 
> When I say "Interesting languages", I am not talking about various .Net
> flavour, think beyond that; beyond Python or Ruby...think outer edges of
the
> solar system. The following is a list of a few of the esoteric programming
> languages...more fun than Sudoku: ;-)
> 
> http://matt.might.net/articles/best-programming-languages/
> 
> Enjoy
> Jim 
> 
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