The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
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The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
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Re: The Hacker Folk Art of Esoteric Coding
#2Ok this part is prescient:
"The parody language INTERCAL was revived as C-INTERCAL, where one literally pleads with the interpreter to run their cryptic code."
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#3Ok this part is prescient: "The parody language INTERCAL was revived as C-INTERCAL, where one literally pleads with the interpreter to run their cryptic code."
hmm, this sounds like a job for vibe coding!
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#4This completely reframes coding from a tool to a medium. It's less about computation and more about... encoded philosophy?
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#5Also linked in the article, https://esolangs.org is worth a read if this is up your alley
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#6The FOC podcast folks released an episode on a paper (they didn't like) on esolangs just today. [0] Their episode on INTERCAL is an all-time classic.
I'm also excited for my copy of Temkin's book to arrive!
[0] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lets-take-esoteric-pro...
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#7Also linked in the article, https://esolangs.org is worth a read if this is up your alley
That wiki also comes with a funny CAPTCHA:
> Which number does this Befunge code output: 9731231181>\#+:#*9-#\_$.@
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#8Reminds be of how people use typescript types like a hidden programming language making calculators etc.
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#9It seems the link to the minesweeper paper is broken, anyone know the title/has an alternate link?