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EsoNatLangs: Esolangs that embrace the complexities of natural language(esoteric.codes)
4 points by xpointer 5mo ago|0 comments
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Velato Hands-Free: Write JavaScript by Whistling(velato.net)
1 points by xpointer 9mo ago|0 comments
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by xpointer 1y ago
Thanks! It's so nice that esolangs are starting to get wider appreciation as a cultural form.
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by xpointer 1y ago
The FOC podcast is super fun and they end up discussing a few esolangs from the Forty-Four Esolangs book (Entropy, FatFinger). I'm also on a podcast about the book with Sam Arbseman (author of Magic of Code): https://podcast
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by xpointer 1y ago
Also, the code for the original INTERCAL-72 compiler was recently re-discovered: https://esoteric.codes/blog/published-for-the-first-time-the...
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by xpointer 1y ago
Hi, I'm the author. Esoteric.codes is my blog on esolangs in general; the book is a collection of my esolangs in particular. Also just to note that e.c had been on hold while I focused on the book, but I'm working on new posts, so
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by xpointer 1y ago
More specifically, The Humble Programmer is about "professionalizing" programming. In the '50s and '60s, programmers justified clever tricks due to the strict constraints of early machines. Dijsktra is saying enough alre
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Taper issue 12: JavaScript code poems under 2k(taper.badquar.to)
2 points by xpointer 2y ago|0 comments
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by xpointer 2y ago
It's 2001 according to the esolangs wiki. https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
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by xpointer 2y ago
This is quite cool and a reminder that SIGBOVIK is happening again next week
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by xpointer 2y ago
I interviewed Martin Kleppe of JSFuck for the same blog: https://esoteric.codes/blog/interview-with-martin-kleppe
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by xpointer 2y ago
Hi, I wrote the piece. Site should be responding well again now.
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Wanda: A "concatenative" language that is not concatenative at all(codeberg.org)
2 points by xpointer 3y ago|0 comments
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by xpointer 3y ago
It will move to https when I update it later this year
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by xpointer 3y ago
Funny you should ask; someone interviewed me about a few of my esolangs for their dissertation last year and referenced the Glass Bead Game. It would take a lot of practice to improvise Velato, but that would be amazing!
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by xpointer 3y ago
I favored the flexibility of ordering concurrent notes differently in MIDI over having the sheet music uniquely define a program. It gives the programmer more choices in how notes can be combined. But there could be a default ordering -- I
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by xpointer 3y ago
I first made the language (fifteen years ago!) out of curiosity about esolangs and as a first try at writing a compiler. And for fun, yes. Since then, I've written more about multicoding -- the way two readings of code impact each othe
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by xpointer 3y ago
It's funny you link to Piet; I began Velato by asking what would Piet be as music. Some programs are instantly recognizable as Piet while others are hardly recognizable as such; the language has its own aesthetic and yet programmers br
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by xpointer 3y ago
Hi, I'm the creator of Velato. I will be reworking the website to include more examples later this year. In the mean time, the latest version of the compiler is on github: https://github.com/rottytooth/Velato No o
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by xpointer 3y ago
In 2009, I made Velato, an esolang where code is written in pitch values ( https://github.com/rottytooth/Velato ) encoded as MIDI files. So sort of the opposite of writing algorithmic music (where the human programmer wr
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by xpointer 3y ago
I see the more creative esolangs like this as beautiful and strange to think and code in; a formal play on language design. Not everything needs to be practical or a learning experience.
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by xpointer 3y ago
Previously done as an art project: http://metriclock.com/
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by xpointer 3y ago
Yes, I wrote it in <2k of js; all the pieces in this issue of Taper are that size or smaller. The name patterns came from Wikipedia, if you view source, it links to the sources.
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Binary, Tremilliquincenteshexary, or Sesmillinongencenteshexaseptuagesimal?(taper.badquar.to)
3 points by xpointer 3y ago|2 comments
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Uiua: A minimal stack-based, array-based language(uiua.org)
334 points by xpointer 3y ago|104 comments
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What Is Code Poetry?(hyperallergic.com)
3 points by xpointer 3y ago|1 comments
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How to build a low-power website(solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
3 points by xpointer 3y ago|2 comments
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The Less Humble Programmer: esolang aesthetics(digitalhumanities.org)
2 points by xpointer 3y ago|0 comments