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This category is for languages deliberately designed to be often unusable, unimplementable, or both. The stress is on "deliberately". A language that is unsuitable for actual programming not by intention but merely (1) due to its inventor's ineptitude, or (2) due to lack of industry support or acceptance by the computer science community, is not obfuscated. Thus this category does not list Pascal, Modula, Ada, or C#. Obfuscated languages are of two types, those that are: (1) Nothing more, or less, than elaborate jokes; example: Intercal is not much more than a thinking person's diversion, albeit a hilariously funny and impressively creative one. (2) Thoughtful and systematic explorations of the subtleties of programming language and algorithm design, or of the theory of computability.

Subcategories

• Befunge
• Brainfuck
• Intercal

Resources in This Category

• Blank

  http://unefunge.republika.pl/
  Strange Befunge-descendant language.

• Cat's Eye Technologies

  http://catseye.tc/projects/eso.html
  Specifications, implementations, sample source code collections for several strange languages, comments on obfuscated language taxonomy and on several far-out coding practices, mail list, links to many related sites.

• Comment Programming Language

  http://c-p-l.sourceforge.net/
  An open-source language for writing comments.

• DM's Esoteric Programming Languages

  http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/
  D. Morgan-Mar esoteric languages Chef, Haifu, Ook!, Piet, Whenever. Links.

• Esoteric Non-existent Standards Institute

  http://esoteric.sange.fi/ENSI/
  "Institute" for the standardization of unstandardized standardizable things, mostly esoteric languages and extensions to them.

• Esoteric Programming Languages Ring

  http://homepage.eircom.net/~kmgaughan/esolang/index.html
  An organisation started to spread insanity and weird programming paradigms among the masses.

• esoteric.sange.fi

  http://esoteric.sange.fi/
  Collection of esoteric programming language implementations, examples, and related files.

• False

  http://wouter.fov120.com/false/
  Programming language with two main goals: confusing everyone with an obfuscated syntax, and designing as powerful a language as possible with a tiny implementation: this compiler executable is only 1024 bytes, written in pure 68000 assembler.

• Malbolge: Programming from Hell

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge_programming_language
  Specifically designed to be extremely difficult to program in.

• Orthogonal

  http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/orth/
  A programming language in which program flow can go sideways. Closely related to Befunge. Tutorial, reference, sample source code, Public Domain implementation available.

• Owl

  http://digilander.libero.it/tonibinhome/owl/
  Obfuscated Weird Language: character-based language interpreter written in C, in the style of False. By Antonio Maschio.

• P-nand-Q

  http://www.p-nand-q.com/
  Home of esoteric programming languages such as Java2K, Smith#, Sorted!, [], Esogotschi and the Great Python Language Zoo. Also heavy on the code obfuscation front.

• Programming in Malbolge

  http://www.lscheffer.com/malbolge.shtml
  Introduction to Malbolge programming. Also propose modificatins of Malbolge for making programming in it more worse.

• Q-BAL Programming Language

  http://homepage.tinet.ie/~kmgaughan/esolang/q-bal/
  A queue based programming language. It's not designed to be useful, just fun.

• Shakespeare

  http://shakespearelang.sourceforge.net/
  A language with beautiful source code that resembled Shakespeare plays.

• The Unlambda Programming Language

  http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/
  Minimalistic functional language based on the Lambda calculus but lacking the Lambda operator. Tutorial, reference, GPLed interpreters available.

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