Cat's Eye Technologies: Gallery Space: Gallery of Esteemed Programming Languages
At Cat's Eye Technologies, we have long beheld a few programming languages as exceptionally worth persual and appreciation, despite the fact that they have no implementations, are not under active development, and were not designed by Chris Pressey (or at least, you can't prove it.) We have, until recently, hosted these in our projects space. However, because of the criteria listed in the first sentence, we decided that these aren't really "projects" in any good sense, and we resolved to establish a distinguished display case for these beauties on this website.
And here it is – the Gallery of Esteemed Programming Languages. Enjoy!
You may also be interested in Chris Pressey's lingography and his List of Undesigned Interesting Esolangs.
Programming Languages
- *W
by John Colagioia
"The *W language should be based on the W language which, of course, does not exist."
- Plankalkül
by Konrad Zuse
Plankalkül was probably the very first attempt at a formalized notation for computer programs, and is considered by many to be the first programming language. This article describing the language, transliterated to HTML from scans provided by the Retrocomputing Museum, originally appeared in Communications of the ACM, July 1972, Volume 15, Number 7.
- Sartre
by John Colagioia
An elaboration of an entry originally in the List of Lesser-Known Languages.
- TURKEY BOMB
by Anonymous
The first known programming-language-cum-drinking-game. The specification was discovered mysteriously one day amidst a pile of Byte magazines in a second-hand book store.
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