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On esoteric languages

Leonora Der on July 14, 2018

I've got a new laptop so I had to arrange the files and folders I wanted to transfer from my old computer to the new one. I guess you know that it ...

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Avalander • Jul 14 '18

I spent 5 years writing Java professionally. Does that count?

Pan Chasinga • Jul 15 '18

LMFAO

rhymes • Jul 15 '18

I'm dead. HAHAHAHAAHAHAH

Vlastimil Pospichal • Jul 16 '18

I wrote my own esoteric language and used it commercially.
No.
I like esoteric languages for a simplicity. They are fast and crazy.
Yes. Waduzitdo was my first inspiration.
Yes. It is good for understanding Turing's machine and state machines.

Leonora Der • Jul 16 '18

wow! what do you mean by commercially? it sounds exciting! :)

Vlastimil Pospichal • Jul 16 '18

I used it as part of my application. It was very simple, Turing's complete and line-oriented.

Pan Chasinga • Jul 15 '18

Writing brainfuck code can make you better at reasoning what's really happening inside a computer's memories. Yes this is serious.

George • Jul 14 '18

I'm the kind of person that likes a challenge, and when bugs happen that I can't figure out I'll sometimes use a language like Brainf*ck to challenge myself. I feel like there is a lot of challenges in programming in general but with unique and esoteric languages it can provide a more fun challenge.