Comment by recursivegirth
Comment by recursivegirth 12 hours ago
Esoteric programing languages is the term you both are looking for. I think the Zachtronic languages fit firmly in there somewhere.
Comment by recursivegirth 12 hours ago
Esoteric programing languages is the term you both are looking for. I think the Zachtronic languages fit firmly in there somewhere.
Usually I see that term applied to Turing tarpits, intentionally obfuscated languages, joke/meme languages, or ones with highly heterodox syntax. Zachtronic languages are really none of these and closer to an assembly (reduced) instruction set architecture. What makes them toy-like languages is that the "machine" you're writing assembly for is rather oversimplified, and is in fact totally fictitious.