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I find YouTube a great place to learn about technologies that are off the beaten track to help me to advance in my knowledge of the technology. One nice technology that I recently learned about whilst browsing YouTube was esoteric programming languages.
An esoteric programming language, or esolang, is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design, as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language, particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages, or as a joke. The use of the word esoteric distinguishes them from languages that working developers use to write software. The creators of most esolangs do not intend them to be used for mainstream programming, although some esoteric features, such as visuospatial syntax, have inspired practical applications in the arts.
Usability is rarely a goal for designers of esoteric programming languages; often their design leads to quite the opposite. Their usual aim is to remove or replace conventional language features while still maintaining a language that is Turing-complete, or even one for which the computational class is unknown.
In computability theory, a system of data-manipulation rules, such as a model of computation, a computer’s instruction set, a programming language, or…
