Strange Code

Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again

Ronald T. Kneusel (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2022
No Starch Press,US (Verlag)
978-1-7185-0240-6 (ISBN)

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Explore the wonderful, wild, and often weird world of esoteric programming languages. Beginning with the history and theory of programming languages, addressing concepts like Turing machines and Turing completeness. Then a tour of three 'atypical' programming languages, real languages that are unusual and require out of the box thinking. Then, five chapters on existing esoteric languages (esolangs). Finally, the remaining chapters detail the development and use of two entirely new programming languages.

A programming language enthusiast, Ronald T. Kneusel’s experience with programming languages began circa 1980 when he first encountered an Apple II computer. Decades later, he completed a PhD in machine learning from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and now works in the industry developing deep learning systems. He is the author of Practical Deep Learning: A Python-Based Introduction (No Starch Press), Math for Deep Learning (No Starch Press), Numbers and Computers (Springer), and Random Numbers and Computers (Springer).

Part I: On Programming Languages
Chapter 1: A Cherry-Picked Review of Programming Languages
Chapter 2: The Essentials of Programming Languages
Chapter 3: Turing Machines and Turing Completeness
Part II: Atypical Programming Languages
Chapter 4: Forth
Chapter 5: SNOBOL
Chapter 6: CLIPS
Part III: Esoteric Programming Languages
Chapter 7: The ABCs of ABCs
Chapter 8: FRACTRAN
Chapter 9: Piet
Chapter 10: Brainfuck
Chapter 11: Befunge
Part IV: Homegrown Esolangs
Chapter 12: Filska
Chapter 13: Using Filska
Chapter 14: Firefly
Chapter 15: Using Firefly
Chapter 16: Going Further
Appendix A: Genetic Programming with Firefly

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2022
Verlagsort	San Francisco
Sprache	englisch
Maße	177 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet
ISBN-10	1-7185-0240-0 / 1718502400
ISBN-13	978-1-7185-0240-6 / 9781718502406
Zustand	Neuware