Esolang, the esoteric programming languages wiki (pointed out by Daniel Temkin on the -empyre- listserv) An esolang (esoteric programming language) that functions similarly is Unnecessary, a programming language which will compile only program files it cant find, and produce a working program with a single NOP (no operation) command (the most minimal instruction that will allow an executable file to be written). When Unnecessary is run with a valid program file, it produces an error and quits. It sorts good Unnecessary programs (the ones which dont exist, but have been named to get the compiler to attempt to find them) vs. the bad Unnecessary programs (everything thats actually on the drive); every text file, JPEG, or system file is each an Unnecessary program that will not run. However, Unnecessary is still producing output files. The (Discordian) programming language Kallisti does even less; if it can find the program file, it compiles it, producing nothing, but responding with a (successful) compiled message. This shows it has confirmed the file is a valid Kallisti program, as is every file -- it fills the syntactic rules of the language, and for this language, to exist is enough. Daniel Temkin
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 08:46:23 +0000
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