Kneusel Ronald T. Strange Code: Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again

No Starch Press, 2022. — 496 p. — ISBN-13: 978-1-7185-0241-3.Strange Code starts with a dive into the underlying history of programming, covering the early computer-science concepts, like Turing machines and Turing completeness, that led to the languages we use today. It then explores the realm of “atypical” programming languages, introducing you to the out-of-the-box thinking that comes from these unusual approaches to coding.oreword
Acknowledgments
IntroductionOn programming languages
A Cherry-Picked Review of Programming Languages
The Essentials of Programming Languages
Turing Machines and Turing CompletenessAtypical programming languages
Forth
SNOBOL
CLIPSEsoteric programming languages
The ABCs of ABCs
FRACTRAN
Piet
Brainfuck
BefungeHomegrown esolangs
Filska
Using Filska
Firefly
Using Firefly
Going FurtherAppendix: Genetic Programming with Firefly
Index