Category talk:Unusable for programming

Shouldn't languages from this category be banned completely from this wiki? Main page says "Welcome to Esolang, the esoteric programming languages wiki!", but these languages are not programming languages by definition. --Blashyrkh (talk) 17:16, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

I've improved the wording slightly. This category is for languages that are clearly unsuitable for producing an operating system, text editor, Web browser, or even a pocket calculator. They still might be worth studying. However, this category isn't like category:joke languages where the article is kept for humor. Corbin (talk) 18:05, 4 February 2026 (UTC)

I've changed the wording considerably – this category is for languages that aren't powerful enough to write useful programs, either because they don't have any commands that would let them do so or due to some sort of flaw in their construction. (Subtle cough is a good example of the latter – all possible programs are equivalent to one of three basic programs, two of which terminate and one of which is an infinite loop, and there's a very simple algorithm to determine which one it is.) This discussion has made me realise that it should probably be in the list of computational classes (despite being subjective) rather than a separate classification. --ais523 15:48, 5 February 2026 (UTC)