- Title Pages
- LEONARDO
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, the Stuff of Software
- Algorithm
- Analog
- Button
- Class Library
- Code (or, How You Can Write Something Differently)
- Codecs
- Computing Power
- Concurrent Versions System
- Copy
- Data Visualization
- Elegance
- Ethnocomputing
- Function
- Glitch
- Import/Export
- Information
- Intelligence
- Interaction
- Interface
- Internationalization
- Interrupt
- Language
- Lists
- Loop
- Memory
-
Obfuscated Code
1 - Object Orientation
- Perl
- Pixel
- Preferences/settings/options/control panels
- Programmability
- Sonic Algorithm
- Source Code
- System Event Sounds
- Text Virus
- Timeline (sonic)
- Variable
-
Weird Languages
1 - Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
Weird Languages1
Weird Languages1
- Chapter:
- (p.267) Weird Languages1
- Source:
- Software Studies
- Author(s):
Michael Mateas
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
This chapter revisits the important role of various programming languages in the field of software engineering. Its main theme revolves around weird or esoteric programming languages, used for testing the boundaries of the programming languages. The chapter mentions that weird languages are not meant for any real-world applications, and also explores the dimensions of analysis on which the languages are based. It exploits INTERCAL, a parody and an example of weird programming languages, along with COBOL and FORTRAN. The chapter states that the motto of these parody language designs is to comment on the features and many different aspects of the traditional programming languages.
Keywords: software engineering, esoteric programming languages, weird programming languages, INTERCAL, COBOL, FORTRAN, parody languages
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- Title Pages
- LEONARDO
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction, the Stuff of Software
- Algorithm
- Analog
- Button
- Class Library
- Code (or, How You Can Write Something Differently)
- Codecs
- Computing Power
- Concurrent Versions System
- Copy
- Data Visualization
- Elegance
- Ethnocomputing
- Function
- Glitch
- Import/Export
- Information
- Intelligence
- Interaction
- Interface
- Internationalization
- Interrupt
- Language
- Lists
- Loop
- Memory
-
Obfuscated Code
1 - Object Orientation
- Perl
- Pixel
- Preferences/settings/options/control panels
- Programmability
- Sonic Algorithm
- Source Code
- System Event Sounds
- Text Virus
- Timeline (sonic)
- Variable
-
Weird Languages
1 - Bibliography
- About the Contributors
- Index
