List of esoteric programming languages

• 23
• 4DL, a Befunge descendant
• ACS, a scripting language used in Hexen and modern Doom ports
• ADL, the Adventure Definition Language
• ADVSYS
• AKI (AvtoKod Ingenera, "engineer's autocode") for Minsk family of computers
• Ale
• ALPACA, a meta-language for programming arbitrary cellular automata
• ARCAL, a language for cellular automata
• Aura, a Brainfuck descendant
• B
• B5
• BAK
• BANCStar
• BCPL
• BDAMD
• Beatnik
• Befunge
• beta-Juliet
• BFM, a Brainfuck variant with macros
• Blank
• BlooP
• Bon programming language
• Boo-yah
• Borg
• Brainfuck, designed to have the smallest compiler ever
• Bub, a Brainfuck variant
• Bubble
• Bullfrog
• C-
• Chef
• Choon
• COBOLscript
• Color Forth
• COMAL
• Condit
• COW
• CUPL
• Dis, a variant of Malbolge
• Doublefuck, an extended version of Brainfuck
• ETA
• FALSE
• FuckFuck (also known as F*ckF*ck, FeckFeck and FF)
• FIFTH
• FISC (Forced instruction set computing), an alternative to CISC and RISC
• Flatline, a Brainfuck derivative
• FlooP
• Focal
• Fromage
• Gorby
• GOTO++
• GPLZ
• Haifu
• Hanoi love, a Beatnik derivative
• hBefunge, a superset of Befunge-93
• Homespring, an excessively high-level language
• HQ9+
• Hunter, a language related to noit o’ mnain worb and RUBE
• iag
• Illberon, a variant of Illgol
• Illgol
• Illgola-2, a variant of Illgol
• Illgol##, a variant of Illgol
• INTERCAL
• Io
• Java2K, a probabilistic language
• JOSS
• Kvikkalkul
• L
• Lambda programming language, lambda calculus + neumann = self-modifying code
• LAIDBACK
• Lazy K
• LITHP
• L00P, a Brainfuck-style language
• Logo
• Magenta
• Malbolge
• Maentwrog
• MDL, the MIT design language (used in the classic Dungeon game)
• MDPN, a meta-language extending the EBNF
• MISC, an alternative to CISC and RISC
• Mouse (not to be confused with nouse)
• MUF, a Forth dialect used on TinyMUCK MUCK servers (in particular, Fuzzball)
• MUMON, a language with a 14-byte bootstrap
• MUMPS
• Muriel, a quine-based language
• Nil, a nihilistic programming language
• noit o' mnain worb, a particle automaton
• nouse
• Numberix, a language that has been compared to Befunge machine code
• Obfuna
• ODDBALL
• OISC
• Ook!, a brainfuck-style language
• Ook#
• OOPS
• Oroogu, a descendant of Q-BAL
• Orthagonal, a two-dimensional stack-based language
• OrthINTERCAL, a combination of Orthogonal and INTERCAL
• Orthogonal, successor of Orthagonal
• Pandora
• pax
• Piet, an art-based programming language
• PILOT
• PL/M
• Plankalkül, the first ever high-level programming language, invented by Konrad Zuse
• Q-BAL, a queue-based language
• QuakeC, a C variant used in Quake
• QUOTE, a Brainfuck-inspired language written to be a wrapper around Perl and C
• REDGREEN, an update of RUBE
• reMorse
• RENE
• RUBE, not quite a cellular automaton
• Sally
• Sansism, a mixture of Befunge and Brainfuck
• Sartre
• Shakespeare
• Shelta, sometimes described as a minimal version of FALSE
• SIMPLE
• SLOBOL
• SMETANA
• SMITH, successor of SMETANA
• SMITH#, described as "the future of GOTO"
• Smurf, a stripped-down version of Muriel
• Snobol4
• SORTA
• Sorted!
• Spaghetti
• Spoon, a Brainfuck derivative
• SQUISHY, a language based on semi-Thue grammars
• SSK (Sistema Simvolicheskogo Kodirovanija, "System of symbolic code"), assembly language for Minsk family of computers
• STOOPID
• Tamerlane
• Teco, a text editor, uses macros, much like Emacs uses Lisp
• thETA, a threaded version of ETA
• Thue, successor of SQUISHY
• tmmlptealpaitafnfal
• Toadskin programming language
• trac
• TRANSCRIPT
• TRUE, a variant of FALSE
• Turingol
• TURKEY BOMB
• TWDL[I]
• UNBABTIZED
• Unlambda
• URISC
• VALGOL
• var'aq, a Klingon programming language
• *W
• Waduzitdo
• Whenever, a language with no sense of urgency
• Whitespace
• Wierd
• XS, an XML-based language
• Y, a FALSE-like language
• ZT
• []

See also: List of programming languages

External links

• Cat's Eye Technologies: Esoteric topics in computer programming (archived version from the Wayback Machine)
• Ryan Kusnery's list of weird programming languages
• The retrocomputing museum
• The lesser-known programming languages (archived version from the Wayback machine)
• Encyclopedia of esoteric programming
• The Turing tarpit
• The random programming languages list

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