Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think “esoteric” is meant for brainfuck, maldbrot and similar. D, nim and co, are quite traditional in language design languages, just not popular (yet).
> esoteric > 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite > 2. belonging to the select few Just because some people give special meaning to the phrase "esoteric programming language," doesn't mean that people who don't know about it should be chastised for not knowing the... esoteric meaning of the phrase. This reeks of "my club uses this adjective only for this…
> punish, especially by beating.
I know, education is though these days.
Here, take some more beating:
> An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke. … The creators of most esolangs do not intend them to be used for mainstream programming, …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...
And the death blow, by a fun fact: week has 7 days because babylonians named them after seven planets - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupyter, Venus, Saturn.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_wee...