On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 12:51 AM, Edward Cherlin wrote:
<< cool lore snipped>>
> and the Esoteric Languages page
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> http://esoteric.sange.fi/orphaned/obslang.html
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> Sadly, the Random Languages/Obfuscated Languages page is no longer
> online, but you can still see it through the Internet Archiv
Computer languages in use can be as different as FORTH, APL, LISP,
Smalltalk, C++, Python...In principle, any symbolic system that is
Turing-complete can serve as a general-purpose computer programming
language with a suitable compiler or interpreter.
Jean Sammet wrote a summary of all computer la
What do we mean by "computer language"? One could answer in terms of
using text to control electronics, and that would be accurate.
However there's also the goal of a philosophical logic: to express
situations in the world, to mirror them for the purposes of
simulation.
The veteran programmer of
