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Esoteric languages are languages designed to push the boundaries of accepted programming language design, either as a joke or as a proof of concept.

Esoteric programming languages are programming languages that are designed as a test of the boundaries of programming-language design, as a joke, or as a proof of concept. These languages are not intended for mainstream use. The first esoteric language was INTERCAL. Brainf*ck is another well-known esoteric programming-language.

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Befunge program looping unexpectedly at @

I've got a befunge program that takes a number from the user, compares it to another number and if it is correct then outputs a "y" and exits (otherwise it loops back to the start). v < …
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"*** - EVAL: undefined function X" in Lisp

I'm making an interpreter for an esoteric programming language, and I made this program for it. However, instead of giving the desired output, it outputs *** - EVAL: undefined function X Can anyone help clarify the problem with this program? I've…
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LOLCODE 1.4 Interpretation

I've been trying to interpret this lolcode written in the 1.4 specification. However, I can't figure it out because there are no available interpreters for this version. I can't seem to find out what SRS means. This is a practice problem for a CTF…
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Signalling formats in WireWorld?

What formats are used in the WireWorld cellular automata rule (language) for signalling between parts of a pattern (program)?
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What is the correct mime type for esoteric languages

What is the correct mime-type type of esoteric languages? I've googled everywhere, I even tried to ask Chuck Norris, but I didn't find the answer anywhere. I have tried these for…
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Befunge 98: eof from stdin

what is the expected behaviour for the ~ instruction in befunge-98, when EOF is encountered? Intuitively, it should place -1 on the stack, but I discovered some variation in this respect: the "intuitive" way is followed by the Befunge-93 JS…
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Esoteric Interpreter in Python

Related to question at How to run Esoteric Language ZOMBIE I realize there is an interpreter ( http://esolangs.org/wiki/User:Marinus/ZOMBIE_interpreter )to run the ZOMBIE language in a python environment, what I don't understand is how to use the…
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Highlight/bold one char in label

I'm programming IDE/interpreter/debugger for various esoteric languages. I would like to be able to bold one character at a time, in varying places (depending on code flow), for the debugger. I'm using WinForms for that. So in short, I would need to…
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statically-typed languages with types decided at runtime?

for example, something like this in Ada (if it were to support this): type Type_Name is range bottom .. top; where "bottom" and "top" are variables. or something like this in C (if it were to support this): struct s { int a; if (z<3) { …
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Incidental programming language aesthetics - smiley face

Is there a programming language where :) is valid syntax (excluding custom defined templates or operator overloading etc)?
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How do I read and write a stream 3 bits at a time?

I'm trying to make an ultra-compressed variant of brainfuck, which is an esoteric programming language with 8 instructions. Since 3 bits is the minimum amount of storage to store 8 values, I went with that. The part I'm stuck on is how to read a…
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subleq confusion and understanding

Can some one explain subleq to me better? I am looking at http://esolangs.org/wiki/Subleq There example: 3 4 6 7 7 7 3 4 0 the first instruction, at address zero, subtracts 7 (address 3) from 7 (address 4). The result in address 4 is 0, so jump…
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Want to write an IF condition statement

How to write an IF condition syntax in the DOG language. I don't know how to write an IF condition syntax. Any Ideas.
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