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Fat Dactyls (esoteric.codes)
53 points by esoprogramming 1805 days ago
3 comments
Sleepytime 1804 days ago
If this kind of thing interests people, the esoteric languages wiki is worth losing some time to.

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

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esoprogramming 1803 days ago
And also the other posts on esoteric.codes itself, covering esolangs and code art
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DylanDmitri 1804 days ago
I've been thinking about a programming language where parts of speech are flexible, so if you define a "square" function you could write both "square 3" and "3 squared".
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bmn__ 1803 days ago
Already taken to its logical conclusion: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Perligata
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ampdepolymerase 1804 days ago
Try some of the DSLs for quantum computers. You basically want all of your operators to be commutative.
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gumby 1804 days ago
Have your read “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” by R. A. Lafferty?
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itronitron 1803 days ago
i was expecting to read about obese flying dinosaurs
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bmn__ 1803 days ago
Daktylos just means finger.
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