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5 forgotten programming languages that were never meant to be practical

These 5 programming languages were built to be deliberately impossible.
Wired

Esoteric Programming Languages Are Fun—Until They Kill the Joke

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or “esolang,” ...
ITWeb

You already speak the most powerful programming language

The hottest new programming language is English. Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, said this ...
SlashGear

Understanding Arduino's Code Language & How It Works

If you're into robotics or electronics, you've likely come across Arduino—a small microcontroller that can control sensors and motors for nifty DIY projects. Like the Raspberry Pi, the Arduino is ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: This open-source AI code generator is very good at writing in C

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have released PolyCoder, an automated code generator model that was trained on multiple programming languages, which they say is particularly good at ...
InfoWorld

What is a compiler? How source code becomes machine code

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...