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10 unusual programming languages that will drive you nuts 🤪

ispmanager.com on January 30, 2024

Malbolge – the most difficult language in the world Get it here Features: interpreter, command interpreter A language with no standard...

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Pawel Kadluczka • Jan 30 '24 • Edited

Two notable languages I found missing from this list:

Brainfuck where Hello World! looks like this:

+[-->-[>>+>-----<<]<--<---]>-.>>>+.>>..+++[.>]<<<<.+++.------.<<-.>>>>+.

Rockstar programming language introduced by Dylan Beattie in his epic talk The Art of Code

Fun fact:
Microsoft used the Ook language to show how to add support for new languages to Visual Studio.

Jon Randy 🎖️ • Jan 30 '24

Also missed was JavaScript. Here's Hello World!:

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Eljay-Adobe • Jan 31 '24

Oh myyy! That offends my delicate sensibilities.

Could you please censor it to b****fuck. Thanks!

Eckehard • Jan 30 '24 • Edited

You should add Forth (see also here ).

Forth uses a very small core (often < 8kB), that is extended by the user code, so the installation often contains only the bare minimum necessary to compile some code. A full-featured Forth system with all source code will compile itself, a technique commonly called meta-compilation or self-hosting.

Forth was and is used to write real applications, but it is also famous for the fact, that the code is quite unreadable. It could happen that a programmer was not able to tell, what the code was meant to do, two week after he/she had written it.

This is, how Hello World looks like in FORTH:

: HELLO  ( -- )  CR ." Hello, World!" ;

HELLO <cr>
Hello, World!

leob • Jan 30 '24

Love this - the one I knew and was previously somewhat "proficient" in :-P is LOLCode!

Nathan G Bornstein • Jan 30 '24

Velato is SO COOL!! I can't believe I haven't heard of that before. Also, I think the Get it here link for Velato is broken. It doesn't seem to go anywhere. Super awesome article!

ispmanager.com Ispmanager • Jan 31 '24

Thank you for your feedback! We fixed the link to Velato

Ranjan Dailata • Jan 30 '24

Interesting!

Among everything, I loved the Chef and Piet :)

Anmol Baranwal • Jan 30 '24

I was hooked the moment I saw the banner.
Writing this comment without reading the post. Gonna do it. LOL!

João Angelo • Jan 30 '24

Thanks for sharing !

Rickrickiin • Jan 30 '24

programming languages can be really difficult.

Thibaut Andrieu • Jan 30 '24

I love PIET !

Especially the program to compute PI with arbitrary precision, which basically consist in drawing a circle and counting its pixels 🤣
dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samp...