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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > It'd be nice if esoteric languages were more interesting.
 
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Mustach
Mar 2, 2003

In this long line, there's been some real strange genes. You've got 'em all, with some extras thrown in.
The best esolangs are Whitespace and HQ9+, 'nuff said.

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.
This is merely emblematic of contemporary examples, where people cram as much as they possibly can into an example, because they're actually targeted to insiders. E.g. Haskell and "I'm going to call this an intro to Haskell, but really it's my version of a monad essay." C++14 doesn't really add much syntax to C++11.

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