Title pretty much sums it up.
I work using a kind of unusual proprietary language (in the sense that it has a niche audience), and am wondering what the strangest language y'all have used is. ๐
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Depends on your definition of โuseโ but I try to complete as many programming challenges as I can in Befunge, or Funge++ my procedural extension.
I wrote a template engine called Candle that was inspired by Razor, but used CSV files as the view model and wasnโt specific to html. A company I worked for used that all the time for data conversion jobs in a smattering of ways. I originally developed it to take CSV output from one system and project it onto an XML template for upload into another system. Saved the company like $40k in consulting fees and they ended up using it for a whole bunch of stuff.
Wish I still had the compiler for it, it was pretty handy given the amount of data that lives only in spreadsheets...
That sounds incredibly useful, I really hope you got a hefty raise for saving them so much $$
Elixir. Not super esoteric, but the least used language that I use on work.
But I use a PHP framework called Phalcon and that I consider to much esoteric
I have used Brainf**k, Arnold C and Piet.
Exploring the ArnoldC programming language
amananandrai ใป Apr 11 ใป 1 min read
Piet is a language whose code looks like an abstract painting.
Wow, I had no idea a language like Piet existed ๐ฎ, I'm definitely going to check it out--it's right up my alley!
Tidal Cycles, a Haskell package to generate algorithmic rave music:
tidalcycles.org/index.php/Welcome
IBM Net.Data on AS/400... a long time ago in a company, far, far away.
mcpressonline.com/programming/web-...
("now" means ~year 2000)
I dabbled in Rockstar for fun - codewithrockstar.com - I guess that makes me a rockstar developer! ๐
I've also written in Z80 assembly language which I guess is quite unusual
Woo Rockstar is hilariously cool. I think my weirdest assembler coding is ARM RISC on an Acorn Archimedes.
Any real 10x dev codes in Whitespace :)
Probably not esoteric but I have coded in nasm (netwide assembler) and prolog. Just for fun.
For real applications, I think my most esoteric programming languages I have used have been: Prolog, Adam, Eve0.8, Eve2.
Prolog is a declarative language of relations, which solves for queries. I used it when I was a linguistics major. It was created by Alain Colmerauer and Robert Kowalski.
Adam is a declarative language of relations and constraints, which solves for state. It was created by Sean Parent.
Eve0.8 and Eve2 are declarative layout languages, for describing where static text, buttons, edit fields, pulldown, columns, rows, et cetera all go. They have similarities to WPF XAML. Both were also created by Sean Parent.
For toy programs, I've used quite a few of the well known different (and silly) programming languages.
I used Prolog in a programming languages course in college.
The class was supposed to introduce us to how different languages approached similar problems. I was able to make the switch to functional programming with Haskell pretty easily, but Prolog did not click.
I've taken money (very briefly) to debug procedures in TANDEM Access Command Language.