About this episode
The episode explores the fascinating realm of esoteric programming languages.
This episode is witness to our two ageing heroes taking a closer look at the mysterious and wonderful world of esoteric programming languages. So if you ever wanted to know what Brainfuck is really all about (but were too afraid to ask selected members of your family never mind your computer science lecturer), wanted to find out where Forth and Prolog are really used never mind what Zig is all about - you don't want to miss this episode. Plus a trip down memory lane (if our two heroes can remember where to find this memory lane thing). Links Prolog: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Prolog Zig: https://ziglang.org Forth: https://forth-standard.org Open Firmware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware Sinclair ZX81: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zx-81 MUMPS: https://www.cs.uni.edu/~okane Brainfuck: https://brainfuck.org Ook!: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Ook! Whitespace: https://web.archive.org/web/20150618184706/http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/tutorial.php Bull$hit: https://github.com/jkstpierre/Bullshit-Programming-Language Alan Turing: https://www.newscientist.com/people/alan-turing ArnoldC: https://github.com/lhartikk/ArnoldC Esolang: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page…
Topics covered
- esoteric programming languages
- Brainfuck
- Forth
- Prolog
- Zig
- programming history
Keywords
- esoteric languages
- Brainfuck
- Forth
- Prolog
- Zig
- programming
- computer science
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Brainfuck, Prolog, Forth, Zig, MUMPS, Ook!, Whitespace, Bull$hit, ArnoldC, Chef
Places: Sinclair ZX81
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