It'd be nice if esoteric languages were more interesting.

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Blotto Skorzany: Nov 7, 2008; He's a PSoC, loose and runnin'
came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with
the bad ADC on his chip
bad ADC on his chiiiiip

Gazpacho posted:

It would be great if some of the effort expended on new EPLs were spent instead on other parts of the esoteric software stack. We need perverted editors, version control and UI frameworks too. You can't tell me the ideas aren't out there.

perverse editor: TECO
perverse version control: visual sourcesafe, microsoft's source code destruction system
perverse ui frameworks: every "front end" js library

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Blotto Skorzany: Nov 7, 2008; He's a PSoC, loose and runnin'
came the whisper from each lip
And he's here to do some business with
the bad ADC on his chip
bad ADC on his chiiiiip

Stoatbringer posted:

C++ seems to be rapidly evolving into an esoteric language. I've seen some C++14 coding examples showing off the awesome power of some of the new features, and it just ends up as an unreadable, unmaintainable tangle of templates and wacky syntax additions.
Kernighan and Ritchie must be spinning in their graves.

Brian Kernighan is still alive

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