What do you mean? It has a tiny compiler and is quite difficult to understand, are there are any other qualities required for inclusion or is there some secret that I'm not aware of?
Esoteric programmign languages are created more as an experiment, joke, art project, or proof of concept than for practical software development. They prioritize novelty, challenge, or expression over practicality and efficiency.
Forth is not that.
It was designed as a practical, stack-based language for embedded systems, instrumentation, and real-time applications. It emphasizes simpilcity, extensibility, and efficiency, and has been widely used in space missions, robotics, and hardware control. While its stack-oriented, postfix syntax can look unusual to those used to C-like languages, its purpose is entirely practical, not experimental or artistic.
> "An esoteric programming language is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical use."
FORTH is difficult to understand? I respectfully disagree. Well... I mean... if you can grok C, you can grok FORTH is my assertion. If you can't grok C or assembly, then sure, FORTH is pretty esoteric. But in that example, so is C.
It is most assuredly different than typical languages, but I don't think that means "esoteric". As an industry, we're sort of lost if "esoteric" means anything that doesn't look like Algol.
jacquesm|5 months ago
andsoitis|5 months ago
Forth is not that.
It was designed as a practical, stack-based language for embedded systems, instrumentation, and real-time applications. It emphasizes simpilcity, extensibility, and efficiency, and has been widely used in space missions, robotics, and hardware control. While its stack-oriented, postfix syntax can look unusual to those used to C-like languages, its purpose is entirely practical, not experimental or artistic.
lordhumphrey|5 months ago
> Here's the definition from the esoteric programming language wiki, which is a lovely resource for anyone interested https://esolangs.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language:
> "An esoteric programming language is a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical use."
OhMeadhbh|5 months ago
It is most assuredly different than typical languages, but I don't think that means "esoteric". As an industry, we're sort of lost if "esoteric" means anything that doesn't look like Algol.