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Welcome to Esolang
The esoteric programming languages wiki, dedicated to the fostering and documentation of programming languages designed to be unique, difficult to program in, or just plain weird.
For readers
You'll probably want to find out what on earth an esoteric programming language is in the first place.
- Explore the complete list of languages or find something specific with the categories.
- Visit the joke language list, which lists languages that can't even be programmed in.
- Take a look at a random language.
- View the list of special pages.
Featured language
Thue is an esoteric programming language based around the idea of a "semi-Thue system": a system which specifies strings that can be rewritten to certain other strings; a program is simply a list of search strings, and possible replacements for them. As a nondeterministic language, a program has the potential to halt if there is some way to reach an end state via applying replacements, even if rules such as "always apply the first replacement" would lead to an infinite loop. No data storage is necessary, apart from a single string that holds the entire state of the running program, although this often causes programs to run slowly due to delays in communicating information from one part of the string to another. (more…)
For creators
If you've just created a language, you can create an article for it by typing its name into the search box, but be sure to take a look at the help guide first.
- Add your work to the language list (or the joke language list).
- Need inspiration? Take a look at the list of ideas.
- Help out with an esolang in progress.
Meta
- Learn about this wiki
- Check out the recent changes
- View the site policies
- Download an XML dump of the wiki
- Discuss on the community portal's talk page
- Talk with enthusiasts in the community portal
Since April 2005, 7,831 articles have been created with 177,879 edits, including 6,980 esoteric languages. There are 9,156 registered users.