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Doesnt: An Esoteric Programming Language (sr.ht)
24 points by surprisetalk 5 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> The idea is a possible realization of LANGUAGE 18 from "FORTY-FOUR ESOLANGS":

    a sculptural language

    it subtracts from potential algorithms,
    making them more specific

    a program only states what it doesn't do
This made me want to read the other forty-three proposals for esolangs! Some of them are here [0], buy the book for more.

I'm a bit unclear about how much the book specifies Language 18 (is it really just the three-line prose poem above? Other languages seem to have more detail) and how much came from the author of this post.

[0] https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs/





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