#esolang #paper #PDF: “Let’s Take Esoteric Programming Languages Seriously”
on 02025-10-11Tromp’s binary #lambda-calculus #esolang
on 02025-08-13"MUXLEQ" is a slight enhancement of the #subleq #esolang that makes it much faster for some kinds of operations.
on 02025-05-20#Wouter van Oortmerssen’s "FALSE" was the language that inspired #Brainfuck (and thus the whole #esolang scene), but is more practical.
on 02023-12-06Champion #code-golf #esolang Osabie, has some 400 built-in stack operations, including perfect shuffle, matrix diagonal, Lucas numbers, lcm, #shoco decompression and so on. I’m not sure what character set these are supposed to be in but it contains both Å and ζ. #compression
on 02021-09-12Hillel Wayne outlines #esolang history, including #BF but also INTERCAL, FALSE, Befunge, Shakespeare, Piet, BodyFuck, Chef, Orca, GolfScript, and Hexagony
on 02021-05-29another #interview with Devine Lu Linvega from #100-Rabbits going deep into the #Orca #livecoding #esolang. #bootstrapping #toread
on 02021-02-09#interview by Daniel Temkin about the #Orca #esolang, a two-dimensional ASCII language for #livecoding #music, by #100-Rabbits Devine Lu Linvega and Rekka Bell(um?), who live on a solar-powered sailboat called Pino and created a conworld called the Neauismetica. Talks a lot about #Fractran. “#Lisp is a slippery slope that leads inevitably to #Forth.”. #bootstrapping #cc by
on 02021-02-09Piet #esolang, the one that looks like Mondrian paintings
on 02019-02-11Code golf of 32-bit #CRC; it’s 30 bytes in i386 machine code, beating even the Jelly #esolang at 34 bytes. Pyth gets it down to 28.
on 02016-10-10#pdf specification of #MATL #esolang
on 02016-09-27"MATL" is a vector stack-based #esolang based on MATLAB for golfing
on 02016-09-27an imperative infix #esolang for golfing
on 02016-09-27Jelly is an #esolang based on J “tacit programming” (i.e. point-free programming) with infix syntax, one-character operations, and one-character indexicals (“quicks”) like “ç” for “the link above this one as a binary operator”. Has its own one-byte character encoding and a set of builtins for typical golf problems like pi, hex digits, alphabet, prime factorization, etc.
on 02016-09-27/// is a minimalist Turing-complete #esolang that runs by a series of string substitutions on the program. Proven Turing-complete using cyclic Post tag systems in 2009, three years after publication.
an #esolang that encodes two #BF operations per character in order to win at golfing.
on 02016-09-27a golfing #esolang. Stack-based, takes input using stack underflow, lots of one-letter builtin functions (factorial, alphabet, primality, prime factorization, nCr). Has numbers and lists.
on 02016-09-27A 2D #esolang wrapped around the faces of a cube. Stack-based, two-dimensional instruction pointer, textual source code with one-byte instructions, 13 ALU operations, random-access stack operators for Turing-completeness. #ISA
on 02016-09-27#BF resources, including advice for implementors and a set of tests. #esolang
on 02016-05-11