This is where esoteric dialects of mainstream languages can work some magic (my FatFinger for instance!) www.anthropic.com/research/sma...

There are surely more important things to worry about with the cbs take-over, but them ruining Trek feels the most personal

We're excited to host a book launch with Daniel Temkin, one of the world's leading experts in esoteric programming languages (or Esolangs).

Book Launch: Forty-Four Esolangs
2pm, October 15
Ahmanson Lab (3rd Floor of Leavey) @dtemkin.bsky.social @ahmansonlab.bsky.social

LA folks: my first book talk is next Tue at Plot, a new bookstore in Chinatown. Details and rsvp here: luma.com/2h591bh9?fbc...

Welcome @hakimbishara.bsky.social and congrats to you, Hrag!

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This place is incredible; they keep all the hardware functioning

Successfully delivered a working Minitel from Paris to the Large Scale Systems Museum outside of Pittsburgh!

How ai summarizes my book tour email:

Web server written in COBOL github.com/jmsdnns/webbol

But imagine a RockStar that borrowed from langs like Ashpaper, where rhyme has semantic value. Or Prāsa, whose lexicon is in the rhythm of syllables (built on Telugu poetry). A lyric-based esolang could use rhyme and rhythm for expression and go so much further…

It doesn’t allow for the expressiveness of a true multicoding language like Piet… your RockStar program reads pretty much like mine; it leaves SOME room for personal expression in code but not enough to make it rewarding to spend much time with (imo).

To be honest, I don’t get what RockStar is going for… Sure, it undermines the seriousness of the compiler, like Ook or LOLCODE. Maybe it seems funnier to people who were into these kinds of bands.

My partner and I were SCREAMING at the rottytooth bit until you connected it was me. So glad you discussed Less Humble Programmer; I'm proud of that piece... We listened the morning before an esolang talk, so was super encouraging. When we got the space, the curator had just listened as well

Would love to chat with y'all about non-English esolangs. BTW, bodyfuck was made before the Kinnect, it just uses the webcam, which is pretty amazing... There were a few langs you mentioned that are new to me and I'm excited to check out. I have a lot more random thoughts, too much to summarize here

I think picking that article to review was a way of pushing back against the usual canon of 20 year old esolangs, and showing how much more going on, from eso-livecoding to multicoding, syntax-heavy langs beyond Shakespeare, etc. Making a 2hr podcast and keeping it compelling is a feat!

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

You only get light if you sit in the upper left side of the room

Dijkstra has opinions (source: Sam Arbesman’s Magic of Code)

I have a lot of thoughts on the piece, but for the discussion of whether Perl is esoteric, this is a classic: www.mcmillen.dev/sigbovik/

Honored to be prominently discussed in this #esolang podcast which raises some of the most critical questions in the space and covers a LOT of material in its nearly two hours

"Rarely does an esolanger discover the most interesting possibili­ties of their language on their own; it is others’ experiments that reveal the nuance and character of a language."

(The preface from @dtemkin.bsky.social's excellent new book "Forty-Four Esolangs")

Hi — just heard it… So nice (and rare) to hear a deep engagement with esolangs! I’m thrilled you discussed The Less Humble Programmer which is as close to an aesthetic theory of esolangs as I have. Many more thoughts (you touched on so many things!)

I get that -- the cracks can add just the right mood to screen content