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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