About this episode
Dan Temkin discusses his project 'Forty-Four Esolangs' and explores the essence of programming languages.
Dan Temkin has been a long time friend of the show. I finally got the chance to sit down and talk with him about one of his latest projects. Forty-Four Esolangs is a "The first artist's monograph of programming languages". During this interview we keep circling around one very crucial question: what really is a programming language? Get the book and learn more about esolangs here: https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs
People in this episode
Host: Sean Haas
Guest: Dan Temkin
Topics covered
- programming languages
- esolangs
- art
- technology
- interview
Keywords
- esolangs
- programming languages
- Dan Temkin
- art monograph
- technology
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Advent of Computing, danieltemkin.com
Books & works: Forty-Four Esolangs
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