Joke language list

This is a list of esoteric languages that are not of any interest except for potential humor value. Generally speaking, they are completely unusable for programming even in theory, trivial and less interesting variations on existing esoteric languages, or too underspecified to determine any potential usability.

For esoteric languages that are potentially interesting in some way, or that are actually capable of running programs and producing a useful output, see the normal list of esoteric languages.

Like for that other list, items here will eventually be removed if they don't link to a page on this wiki.

General languages

• !!SuperPrime
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• & is a joke esolang that only works if that esolang doesn't exist.
• 'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. denies all commands and prints an error message for each command.
• ( - a language that is only usable when the current user dies.
• * Use Asterisks to do everything.
• ***
• ++, it's that thirdglyph language, but the thirdglyph is banned.
• +- Also named ID and IDPL
• +-= Modification of +-
• ,() (a.k.a out-parens-comma)
• ; is input only.
• +-=*/!&# Modification of +-=
• ｢Zero Existance⇩｣ - a language that only doesn't delete it's own compiler when the current user is nonexistent
• 🕳️
• 0 bytes XD has an interpreter with 0 bytes, but it can still output.
• 0x42 is HQ9+B but with only the B command.
• 1231 A console based language consisting of only numbers, by User:Earthrulerr
• 9 bytes :I is 13 bytes :D but smaller and fully unusable
• 13 bytes :D is 16 bytes :P but smaller.
• 16 bytes :P is 25 bytes written on Python.
• 2014 might theoretically have been usable for an entire year, but was only used for three and a half hours before it faded into uselessness.
• 2017 is a 2014 derivative.
• 25 bytes o:
• 2 Bits, 1 Byte is a 2-bit CPU with 1 byte of memory.
• 3 Bits, 3 Bytes is a 3-bit CPU with 3 bytes of memory.
• 4 bits, 8 bytes is a 4-bit CPU with 8 bytes of memory.
• 42 is a family of ex-nihilo self-interpreting Gödel numbering languages.
• 420 is a Chicken derivative that only works on the 20th of April.
• 7 bytes XD is literally smaller than 13 bytes :D, at the cost of output.
• 8BallScript is another way of writing binary.
• ඞlang by Yes (talk) 16:19, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
• AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaEEEEEEEaaaaaaaaaaaa by Linker-Error (talk) 02:02, 9 August 2023 (UTC)Linker-Error
• Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ is a joke language is not a joke. リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー!
• Anti-Machine language, an esolang that cannot run on machines.
• Anti-Plushie language is a language that is made only to be plushie incomplete.
• Aperture A language inspired by how AI designers in Portal attached personalities to a central agent
• APLBAONWSJAS is a simple program designed to create interpreters
• APLWSI is a programming language with the smallest interpreter in the world.
• Arch is the best! Arch is the best!
• Assemblei You thought assembly was hard? Introducing Assemblei cause why not?
• B#
• Babbage is a language almost entirely unlike Ada.
• Baby Language does something random; you run it repeatedly until it does what you want.
• Bad command or file name, MS-DOS variant of 'xxx' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
• bash: foo: No such file or directory
• Basilisk is the only language which will summon a literal snake.
• Baz
• Beecode But every "bee" prints out the first sentence of the bee movie script.
• BeeScript
• Bgt, made in 2 minutes 22 seconds.
• Bitxtreme can only address two bits of memory.
• Blah does not even make sense.
• Bonar-- basicaly python but boner.
• Boner++ is based on a dialect of shitposting found on a Discord server.
• Boobeans A normal language but the booleans betray you.
• BOREDOM, not enough code try again.
• Boyfriend.xml
• Braces, where the only valid command is braces.
• Brainfuck⁰ is a very stupid downside of brainfuck²
• brainless
• C@, made in 3 minutes 36 seconds
• Cactusi, cacti are lit.
• Cheese++ is based on cheese. It is a Cheese+ derivative.
• C-Hex is based on EarthBound CCS control codes.
• Compute can solve any problem and process any kind of data.
• CPL allows nearly all types of comment syntaxes, but nothing else.
• CRalphabet takes varying numbers of '\n' as commands.
• Crazy uses reverse alphabet integers to print lines of code. Everything is reversed.
• CurSorn2 works in somewhat undefined and random ways.
• Cut counts by the instruction number.
• D♭♭
• Danica A very complicated Input system with a very easy output system!
• Deadfish is a very odd language, that has an output stream but not an input one.
• Deadfish~ is a super-set of Deadfish, only it does not have any standard shell.
• Deadfish x is a superset of the XKCD variant of Deadfish.
• DeadPig is a version of Pig where the pig has died.
• Deadsnail, an esolang made simply for annoying its users!
• Deadsocket can open sockets, but not closing them.
• Defined behavior is the opposite of Undefined behavior (language).
• DeleteScript, a very funny esolang. Any program in this esolang deletes itself
• Dig straight down like an idiot | Dig but it’s Minecraft logic style.
• Dimensional: infinite dimensions, inside infinite dimensions.
• Division, a language that always has an excuse to raise an error.
• doEverything(); can do anything and everything, including everything.
• Doug
• Dot's
• DUCK is a language where any program does stuff according to the interpreter.
• Dumpster Fire is a language where you can make a dumpster fire.
• E++ is a language where everything is E, or A.
• efghij is programming with real-life objects like cutlery, rubber bands, etc.
• Eliminate is the only esolang that can eliminate its current user.
• Error, a language in which all programs result in an error and the program and the interpreter are deleted.
• ErrorFull, a language in which all programs result in an error.
• ErrorFullC++ is ErrorFull, but to C++.
• ErrorLang raises an error with an unusual error message.
• Esketit is a programming language designed to look like Lil Pump’s song "Esketit"
• Esme
• EsoFur
• Esolangs executes programs in any esoteric language, given they are categorized as Implemented.
• Eternity can do anything, but needs infinite time to decode and launch.
• Euler can do nothing but compute the transcendental number e.
• Feta has only one instruction, which prints a message
• Fetlang is designed such that source code looks like poorly written fetish erotica.
• FISHQ9+ is a superset of Deadfish, extended by HQ9+
• FixxBuxx
• Fizzbuzz can only do FizzBuzz, but you get to name the esolang to whatever you want!
• foo : The term 'foo' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again. is an esolang that imitates a common Powershell error.
• Fool (Maxsteele2)
• Fork is brainfork but it can only fork.
• Fucker is like Fuck you! but fucks the programmer instead of the user.
• Fuckgoid is the fungoid with the smallest interpreter (3 bytes).
• Fuck you!, designed just to fuck its user!
• Functional deadfish has functions, but is still confusing.
• Functional deadfish~ is a combination of Deadfish~ and Functional deadfish.
• FunctionsFTW is a language where you should use functions for everything.
• FunnyEsolangLol is a language like Brainfuck but fucks up your brain even more.
• FurASM is an over-engineered furry-based assembly language inspired by the language right above it in the list.
• Furcode is a furry-based Programming language that just sucks...
• Gift gives you coal if you ask for something that is too expensive
• Golf Cheat
• GolfJoke
• GreeeeeeeeenText A language where all code is in 4chan greentext meme format.
• H+Q9 is very useless.
• Hell69, a language that's a pain to code in.
• Hipster is a language you already know about if you're anyone worth knowing
• History is based on an esoteric data structure with the same name, created just for fun.
• How to learn this language is a language whose name is infinity long.
• HQ9funge - the language that was designed to make the programmer's life worse.
• Hq(- that doesn't even do anything useful.
• hsifdaeD is an esolang made to implement Deadfish.
• huh? doesn't understand what you want it to do.
• huh?++ takes misunderstanding to the next level.
• I am sure this is the shortest code for 99 bottles of beer
• IANAL, the language of legal contracts.
• IBC Never to be programmed in, ever
• if(j)invert()if(l)change()if(q)input()if(t)output(x);
• Ifthen is an uncomputable esolang.
• If the question specifies that the number of the words should be less than 3, and the number of words in your answer is larger than 3, your answer is automatically wrong. If the question specifies that the number of the words should be less than 3, and the number of words in your answer is larger than 3, your answer is automatically wrong.
• Increment can increment accumulators
• Infinite loop (esolang) can do an infinite loop.
• Initialization can only initialize its variables
• Intercal Possibly the least intuitive language ever - created as a joke at Princeton in '72, it now has compilers on most platforms.
• InterpretMe Which has no use other than a self-interpreter
• Interpret Esolangs, an esolang that can do nothing but interpret a limited range of esolangs.
• IRP depends on the civility, knowledge, and presence of fellow IRP programmers.
• ItOi Input to Output instantly by Grs (talk)
• JarJarScript A language where all code is in Jar Jar Binks' grammer.
• Jeeves is a language based on the way a stereotypical English butler would talk.
• Joke Page is an esolang made to be pointless.
• Kate do you like that name?
• Keys Insert keys.
• KYS brainfuck but even shittier :)
• Letlang, just numbers, also numlang was taken :P
• lezy is lazy
• li1I is a language where the only valid characters are l, i, 1, I and whitespace.
• LifeScript is a family of, sadly unimplemented, languages to describe real-life activity in a text document.
• Line Feed is made of only newlines
  
  
• LinuxLang is a language inspired by script kiddies
• Livefish is a language that has no output compared to Deadfish.
• literally every golflang ever is a language that mocks golflangs.
• LMBC, a language created by Cortex, is a language made by Cortex that Cortex created.
• Losescript is a golfing language that makes you lose golfing contests.
• Loss
• Magritte has only one legal program, which claims not to be one.
• Malloc is an esolang which can only allocate memory
• MaybeNumericBatch Similar To Numeric Batch In Every way shape and Form except It only sometimes works :D
• Merthese produces correct output only when the random seed is right.
• Minimum is like Unlambda, but with no primitive combinators.
• MISATOeso
• Miser, simulates a person that doesn't want to give others money.
• Moanfuck
• mugh brains has ZOMBIES!!
• Multiline has multiple lines, trust me
• Multiply can only multiply values with a limited set of numbers.
• Multiprocessing, a language that might crash your computer!
• Ndef++ You have to be in the know.
• Nil translates anything into a NO-OP.
• NNVText considers an empty program the only invalid program.
• No. Denies any legal argument you try to parse
• Nope. The program thinks your argument is invalid.
• Nope. without a quine is Nope. but you can't write a quine.
• NopLWSI is a joke esolang that has no quine.
• NOT A PROGRAM is a program that apparently used to exist, but it actually doesn't.
  • Not to be confused with ThisIsNotARealLanguage.
• Nullary accepts no parameters or input from the user and uses the current time as the basis for what it does
• Number is written only in number.
• olleH is the opposite of Hello.
• OneLine is in one line
• OREO you can cook cookies.
• Paranoid Programming Language (some kind of joke, for sure.)
• Parrot was a supposed collaboration between the authors of Perl and Python that was announced as an April Fools' Day prank. It later became a virtual machine intended for use with dynamic programming languages.
• Permission denied, is a language that no one can use, because they have no permission.
• Pewlang
• Pig is a language with only one keyword, which is its title.
• Plus is a joke language that uses only the tokens + and EOF.
• Poinal weird programming language i created because i was bored asf
• Poop
• PP_TIBSA has a suicidal interpreter and only one valid program.
• Project Euler can only solve the Project Euler problems.
• Psychopaths is a language that only uses a print function.
• PUBERTY is supposed to resemble a masturbation procedure.
• PUPPY is the language that only puppies can understand.
• QKAS is a language similar to the QWERTY Keyboard Dot Language.
• Quiler is a language in which all programs are Quiler compilers
• Quine is a language where everything is a quine.
• QuinePig, a variant of the language Pig where every program is a quine
• QWERTY Keyboard Dot Language is a programming language that does everything you want, but forces you to write in dots.
• Qwote, a language that quotes a quote.
• Randwork is a language that does something each statement.
• ReadArticle is capable of doing anything that is mentioned in this wiki.
• Recipescript is a language that produces an edible output, if you're not bad.
• RELATIONS is very romantic and useless language
• Remove Line Numbers is an esolang which removes the line numbers in the source code and prints it, see also its twin language Preserve Line Numbers, which is much less powerful.
• Rickroll - an esolang that does nothing but Never Gonna Give You Up! :D
• Robolang is a language made specifically for robots! Now you can communicate using Beeps and Boops!
• Sacred is a language that is constituted only of the parenthesis characters and the space. Nonetheless, it *is* Turing complete.
• SANTA SANTA! IS THAT YOU?!?!, by User:Earthrulerr
• SiacB aka siacB-v2 is a horribly made esolang, with no value.
• Seed is a language based on random seeds.
• Segmentation fault always returns a segfault.
• SHAat Secure hash algorithm atomita
• Shameful is a very shameful language.
• Shatner is a language that cack-handedly processes inputs based on some example inputs and outputs.
• ShitLang the best worst programming language
• Shishkirism feel this religion
• SickPig, a version of the language Pig that is sick.
• SimpIe progranning Ianguage is a language that should not be your first
• small - language with the goal of having large and hard to read sourcecode.
• Smalllang - made User:Hanzlu capitulate
• SolboScript
• SpaghettiScript, A language designed to look like spaghetti.
• Subjective-C - A language with the goal of being absolutely abhorrent.
• SussyLang, Sus ඞ 🥵️
• SyntaxError: invalid syntax treats all commands as valid/invalid.
• T a b - language with the goal of having even larger and harder to read sourcecode than small
• TAMalbolge
• Text
• TF
• The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars (are a million to one), just like the chances of this to output the first paragraph of The War of the Worlds
• The Language That Explodes is very easy to run, but impossible to write.
• This esoteric programming language has one of the longest titles, and yet it only has one command, which is such a shame, but there is no way to undo it so we may as well stick with it
• THIS PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE IS LITERALLY ALL NUMBERS This is 1231 but with numbers replacing text>;)
• Tjʊrɪŋ məʃin, whose name is written the way it's pronounced
• TP A language where you use toilet paper for calculations.
• Trans-dimensional is a neat language where you can create dimensions to put your useless data in and take them out if really really needed.
• Treee uses just ( and ) but is stronger than Turing machine so no complete interpreter exists
• TroJavaScript This is just JavaScript, right? That's not what I wanted my program to do!
• Tttt really can’t do anything. Well, you will see.
• TUBSOIL
• TURKEY BOMB.
• Tweet is a social networking programming language.
• UClang*
• Ummm... Tries to output, but forgets what it's doing.
• Un-Js JS, But upside-down backwards.
• Undefined behavior (language) does what is says on the tin
• Unmatched [ raises an error for any program.
• Unnecessary requires the non-existence of the program file to work.
• User talk:Language makes fun of this wiki's user talks.
• User:Marina
• UserNo
• Vague does something.
• Vaguest is something...
• W
• Welcome to Esolang, the esoteric programming languages wiki!
• WHY was developed to prove to somebody that compiled doesn't mean fast.
• Wishmaster is a language in which could make one's wishes true. Its interpreter is pure coincidence and its executed by cosmic-scale fate.
• worstscript also known as sausage language, is interpreted in PHP and preferably run in a virtual machine. Has goto statements!
• X
• Your screams at any programmer who spells "You're"
• Your Pillows are in fact joke languages! (The name looks hilarious.)
• Zhouly++
• Zull

Brainfuck derivatives

• ℵ0 (Aleph-Naught/Aleph-Zero/Aleph-Null/N0/NO/ℵO), a brainfuck derivative that literally distorts your code and glitches it.
• AHHH: BF except it's screaming into the void.
• and then is like BF, but with and thens!
• ASCII art
• ASCII art-
• Babylang, code like a baby.
• Bitcoin only increment or decrement the current pointer by the price of Bitcoin.
• BitZ
• Blub
• Brain:D, Who needs Brainfuck when you have Brain:D?
• BrainEmoji - brainfuck but with pretty emojis like 👍 for + and 👈 for <
• Brainfuck, but every + is replaced with the bee movie script
• Brainfuck: Free Version: Turing completeness is a premium feature.
• BrainGuck
• Bruh@ - language of disappointment and at sign
• BurgerFlipper
• CLAG, where every command looks identical, but is technically different
• Colonoscopy
• COW
• CubeCode
• Developers
• DirectBrainFUCK is like plain BF, but you can't do arithmetic!
• Dumb self-modifying language is a very dumb BF based self-modifying esolang.
• Ellipsis
• ErrorFuck is ErrorFull but to BF.
• F*ckf*ck
• FoolFuck is a very dangerous esolang that can badly damage the user's computer if not used properly.
• Fuckscript, a programming language developed for creating self-driving cars.
• Hello Fuck! is basically bitwise BF but uses Hello and World instead of bits.
• Hq9eFuck, which is extended by HQ9+ and something else.
• HuffPuff, wanna puff?
• KonamiCode, brainfuck but simple
• LogicF---, brainfuck has too much logic!
• MalTape, which makes programs look like quick messages.
• Matisse
• Matrixfuck, brainfuck but 2D
• MGIFOS
• MindReadingFuck
• MiniStringFuck
• Morsefuck
• Nameless language, which looks like binary.
• Newbiefuck is the language 73%^{[citation needed]} of newbies implement somewhere in the process of implementing brainfuck.
• Not a brainfuck derivative
• Oof
• Ook!
• ParrBF
• Pikalang
• POGAACK
• Pure BF, which explains away all side effects, making it pure.
• Rebellent Brainfuck is brainfuck, but doesn't always obey what you want it to do.
• Redundant is brainfuck but you have to add the first 5000 digits of pi before each command.
• ReverseFuck
• Revolution 9
• SCREAMCODE reflects the anguish you'll feel while programming in it.
• Self-modifying BrianPh*ck
• Semordnilap
• Solbofuck
• sus
• This is not a brainfuck derivative
• Time is BF, but its behavior only depends on how many times you've run it.
• Triplet, which uses binary triplets to encode instructions.
• UltimateBinary
• Unary, which uses the unary number system as source code.
• Unrandom, which generates brainfuck code from a seed
• VerboseFuck, which makes Brainfuck verbose.
• XD is uncomputable, yet Turing complete. XD
• XMLfuck
• YABFD, Yet Another BrainFuck Derivative which adds If blocks and memory pointers to brainfuck
• Zoophilia, which uses machine learning to compile pictures of animals to brainfuck instructions

Example-based languages

i.e., languages which make it easy to write programs used as typical examples for new languages, but little else.

• 99
• ™
• Cat Program (language)
• CHIQRSX9+
• DeltaHello
• FHC
• FISHQ9+
• Hello
• Hello++
• Hello++++, which can do all basic stuff a programming language need.
• Hello++++++++ Does anything you'd ever want.
• Hello++++++++++++++++
• Hello! Hello Again!
• Hexlr7
• HQ9+
• HQ9-
• HQ9++
• HQ9+~
• H🌍+
• H🌍++
• Huby
• KittyKittyMewMew
• NH₃
• Post-Unified HQ9+
• pRINT
• TPLTSSPP
• Unified HQ9+

Lesser known programming languages

• Bruhfunk
• C-
• COCAINE
• DOGO
• FIFTH
• LAIDBACK
• LITHP
• RENE
• SARTRE
• SIMPLE
• SLOBOL
• VALGOL
• while true {cat}

See also

• Language list