Programming Language Design as Art Open-ended, community based, and collaborative, “esolangs” serve as a reminder that digital art has other histories and other futures.

Lucky for us, new technology is about to render programming languages about as useful as Latin. The headlong global frenzy to teach programming in schools is coming about 20 years too late.

This programming language gives you programs that resemble modern art. It’s fortunately a feature of the language, dubbed Piet after the famed abstract painter Piet Mondrian. The language use… ...

Some programming languages helped send humans to the moon, some are cooking up new leukemia drugs, and some exist just to fuck with you. Brainfuck is a minimalist “esoteric language,” or ...

We’re hoping Go turns out to be a great language for systems programming with support for ... OMG/JK and the co-creator and host of TC Cribs. Drawing on his experience at TechCrunch, in late ...

If I were to categorize programming languages like art movements, there would be mid-century utilitarianism (Fortran, COBOL), high-theory formalism (Haskell, Agda), Americorporate pragmatism (C# ...