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Encyclopedia of Stupid Languages at http://www.kraml.at/stupid/

“You think Perl is hard to read? You think Pascal is restrictive to the
point of uselessness? You ain’t seen nothin yet. Computer science and math
pranksters with too much time on their hands have designed, among other
absurdities, an imperative language with come from instead of go to for
flow control, a functional language based on the Lambda calculus but
lacking the Lambda operator, and an assembly language with exactly eight
zero-operand instructions. This site aims at becoming a comprehensive
database of stupid languages, complete with links to their respective
specifications, their authors’ homepages, and to compilers and interpreters
implementing them.”

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/1267

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