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Esoteric Programming Languages: Rockstar, Tabloid, Baby Language, Ook!, Chef (slicker.me)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 16 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

I would like to propose to accept JavaScript as an esoteric programming language. The syntax is a joke and nobody uses it unironically.

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    • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Write it yourself next time instead of generating it.

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    [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    No FiM++?

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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Are Rockstar and Tabloid even Turing complete?

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Rockstar is, in fact it is even supported on code.golf so you can try it and compete!

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I'm good, thanks. I've got plenty of C, C++, Python, Zig and Rust code that needs to be written as it is. If I'm going to use some of my sparse free time to have a look at new programming languages, I'd rather spend it on Haskell, Erlang, Eiffel or Ada.

    I don't see Rockstar or other esolangs as likely to teach me anything novel, useful or transferable and It's not going to do much for my CV either. Perhaps I'm being overly pragmatic, but I only have so much time per day, and we all have to prioritize.

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    • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    At least when I had to create a DSL in a project I gave it a fitting name: Bullscript.

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    I have an idea for an eso lang, called Greentext, where you write little programs as greentext story, scope indentation is >, and exception handling is done by typing > my parents beat me up.

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