Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu May 27 16:33:48 CDT 2010
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 > > _______________________________________________ > dba-Tech mailing list > dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com > http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech > Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com