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About esoteric.codes... |
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about |
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#all content |
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#interviews |
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#individual projects |
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#other posts |
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in:verse |
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This shader-based esolang has a new type of flexible lexicon, making it easier for programmer-poets to focus on compelling code and visuals |
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Esoprogramming and Comp****tional Idealism |
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Through the concept of comp****tional idealism, we can see how some esoprograms re-a***ert order within the seeming chaos of the esolang. They "rehabilitate" the language by showing that simple, elegant code can be written within it, despite its alien appearance |
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Make Your Hard Drive Infinite With These Three File Systems |
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Having storage issues? These three file systems make your hard drive virtually limitless. |
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ais523 (2011 Interview) |
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As the creator of languages like Underload, and an administrator of the esolangs.org wiki, ais523 talks through what makes esolangs interesting and challenging vs thematic and gimmicky. |
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ais523 (2017 Interview) |
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In this second interview with ais523, we discuss his experiments at finding 'the essence of programming,' using analog computing, extreme minimalism, and a deletionist model of comp****tion |
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Alex McLean |
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Alex was a key developer of live coding as a musical practice, and, with Nick Collins, created the Algorave concept. Alex has developed software for coding-as-performance, including TidalCycles. |
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Allison Parrish |
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Allison Parrish is a poet and programmer who researches and makes art about language, often in the context of comp****tion and the Internet. She is the creator of the everyword Twitterbot and the author most recently of Articulations, a book of generative poems from an algorithm which extracts linguistic features from over two million lines of public domain poetry, then traces fluid paths between the lines based on their similarities. |
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Annie Dorsen |
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Annie's work brings engagement with code to theatre, with experimental works where performers (human and non-) act on generated music or texts. |
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Ben Olmstead |
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Ben is an early esolanger, whose Malbolge, a language created in a single afternoon, is still considered the most challenging to code; he gives insight into the early days of esolangs. |
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Chris Pressey |
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Chris has been making esolangs before they had a name; he helped foster the community through the mailing list where much of the early discussion took place, and is responsible for the enormously influential Befunge language, among many others. |
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David Morgan-Mar |
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David has created some of the best-known esolangs, including Chef and Piet, which exress code within other rule-based systems, and Whenever, a language that overturns a key element of how code is controlled. |
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Don Woods |
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Before brainf**** and Befunge, there was INTERCAL. Don Woods discusses the creation of this pioneering esolang and how he looks at geek culture today. |
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Eric S. Raymond |
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Eric, best known for his work in the free software / open source movement, is also responsible for developing C-INTERCAL in 1990, a critical moment for esolangs, from the 70s language INTERCAL, perhaps the very first esolang |
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Evan Buswell |
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Evan Buswell sees the history of computer science as completely suffused with the anxiety about the possibility of code changing state. Here he explores alternatives that embrace this anxiety and see where it leads
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Keymaker |
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Keymaker created one of my favorite languages, Unnecessary. In this, the very first interview for esoteric.codes (from January 2011), Keymaker discusses his work in esolanging and in brainf**** programming |
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Martin Ender |
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Martin Ender creates 2D languages of unusual topologies, with code arranged in hexagons, triangles, or using registers arranged in icosohedral structures. We discuss the aesthetics of Funges and golfing languages, and how to both make a complex esolang clear enough for programmers to be able to engage with its central premise. |
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Martin Kleppe |
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