Interview with Esoteric Language Academic 2024

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How to create a compiler
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made up programming language
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Programming jokes
Programming memes
Computer science concepts 101
Brainfu
Brainf* programming language
Whitespace language
Esoteric
Intercal
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#programming #jokes

[@kailentit]

> Patreon...

[@tigerstallion]

as a programmer, I expect genius level stuff for free 😁 since tech lead lost his wife, youre the funniest nerd on yt. keep it up; I need this humor in my life

[@Jeremyak]

"I have too many computer science degrees to be employable at this point" 😂

[@hospeh]

That one got me.

[@sreedev]

> "has any programmer made anything useful with this?" > yes. > "alright, then its not worth my time" I'm weak lol

[@peterittzes]

I 100% saw that joke coming and it still got me

[@hotpil7020]

"Sometimes I take my belt and whip myself. Still better than Java script"

[@TehKarmalizer]

Amen, brother. 🙏

[@Aliceintraining]

not wrong.

[@MelancolicoCatrin]

props on the TempleOS in the background

[@spiteu9272]

RIP Saint Terry

[@mks-h]

6:10 Now, a Whitespace program embedded into a C program is my new unreasonable phobia. How do I sanitize whitespaces, lol?

[@deathpyre42]

Plot twist, the whitespace program is the only functional aspect of the program, what looks like a c-program isn't actually read by the compiler at all, it exists only as random code meant to space out the whitespaces. So when it comes time to debug it and they see the janky mess of C, they inadvertently irreparably break the whitespace program, and every attempted fix throws out worse and more cryptic errors.

[@Austin-fc5gs]

clang-format

[@raz1572]

write everything on one line and don't use tab, elimiantes 2/3 of the syntax

[@zeustechbr]

@@raz1572 genious, once I saw a game being made under 10 lines, well if you put everything into 1 line it's a one line game ffs hahaha. And the guys in the video were doing exactly that

[@izd4]

formatter on a pre-commit hook

[@burntt999]

As far as I’m concerned this guy is a genius. Plus it takes a shit load of knowledge to not only know about so many different programming topics but to also know how other people view them.

[@SirFlak]

The Parseltongue killed me 😂

[@ZapOKill]

"explain it back to me in BNF"

[@mountain3301]

Roughly eBFN, for brevity: ```RESP ::= TRUE | FALSE STR STR ::= { 'a'..'z' | 'A'..'Z' | ' ' }``` E.g.: `FALSE "is fav bool"`

[@NotJustBikes]

Hey! I know that guy from the #masstransit channel.

[@WoolyCow]

avg not just bikes moment

[@iluvsoupers]

Didn't expect to see you here 💀

[@JamesTsividis]

@@iluvsoupers Jason is in the tech industry I think.

[@chri-k]

Now we know it's not just bikes, but esolangs too!

[@Truttle1]

No way not just esolangs???

[@AdamBosnjakovic]

the "ancient erlang" book in the background is on point

[@NatiiixLP]

I wonder how it differs from "modern erlang". Surely, it can't be worse!

[@cygil1]

But at least one commercial telecom switch was programmed in Erlang. Surely that should be Haskell or ObjectCaml or something.

[@Tasarran]

"This one detects if the program halts..." ..turning back to the keyboard in surprise... "It detects if the program halts?!?"

[@JATmatic]

This one was a golden. :D

[@JohnWittle]

Yeah this one made me pause I was laughing too hard

[@nosuchthing8]

I *think* the joke is that that's not possible if it's Turing complete. So he only has interest in languages that can crash.

[@warpspeedscp]

Nah, it's because that would be the discovery of the millennium. ​@@nosuchthing8

[@ekonomija8718]

​@@nosuchthing8I think it can also be interpreted as the fact that he just stumbled upon _the most useful program possible_ lmao

[@malamhari_]

"If I have to much time, I come up with too many problems." got me

[@MasterSergius]

"The most effective way to waste time" - relates to 90% of modern IT industry

[@XDarkGreyX]

Processes and bureaucracy are the bane of humanity. The dose is usually too high

[@monad_tcp]

JS is the most effective way of wasting time. you could just make a simple HTML and call it a day

[@yt-sweety]

Still better than JavaScript

[@axeman2638]

damn beat me to it.

[@charlieking7600]

Anything better than JokeScript, which was developed for two weeks. And, that's kinda funny, it's earlier name was "Mocha", which is read by native Russians as "piss".

[@j.r.r.tolkien8724]

Your brain was developed for two weeks. Your ancestors missed out on evolution.

[@aafjeyakubu5124]

I lost it right there 🤣

[@hunternegron336]

Facts

[@josda1000]

Thank you for putting this out on father's day. Us father-programmers need something to laugh at. Especially javascript.

[@ellielikesmath]

a triple math phd wanting to work on esolang instead of the hodge conjecture is very accurate. i also would've accepted them wanting to work on their crippling depression and/or their fear of human interaction. lol

[@razac_zr]

> "what is Esolang?" > exactly

[@AlejandroGarcia_elviejo]

ESOteric programming LANGuages

[@johnsmith1953x]

@@AlejandroGarcia_elviejo Is there a list of them somewhere?

[@boner4098]

​@@johnsmith1953x list? What are you, 12? There are ASTs.

[@miguelguthridge]

The ADHD and autism jokes were such a personal attack

[@alzeNL]

When your late to term on your 1st year of a PhD and the only supervisor willing to take on your research subject wrote an obscure programming language that no one uses and the book costs £95 to learn the basics, yes, thats this man :D

[@tigerstallion]

and he forgets his syntax because he wrote it like 3 languages ago 😆

[@gjsmo]

So I wanted to know how many of the esolangs talked about in this video were were real, and in looking them up I found out that the APL poster on the wall is actually a Deadfish interpreter. So that's fun.

[@GSBarlev]

I'm knee-deep wading through the esolangs wiki rn. *There's a whole dang wiki* of these works of art.

[@thezipcreator]

literally all of them, I've seen them before on the esolangs wiki

[@ped7g]

This channel is secretly documentary channel. Just hiding it under facade of satire, but if you dig into it deeper... there's always truth behind, like JavaScript being horrible.

[@piedpiper1172]

@@ped7gThis channel has taught me, a person who cannot code even a single line in any language, to reflexively hate Java Script and mention that hate any time it comes up in conversation.

[@yevgeniysimonov5906]

"If I have too much time, I come up with too many problems" - this is genius 🤣

[@joeybuddy96]

That's kind of how maths doctors work. Gotta make more problems than you can solve.

[@linuxcuanthony493]

Richie Guix is my idol.

[@zeckma]

Thanks for bringing Richie Guix back to the show! I'm hoping we'll get to hear from him again about GNU/Linux!

[@ronaldosd]

He actually calls It GNU + Linux 😂

[@lubricustheslippery5028]

Why? When it exists an OS that speaks in tongues

[@MatthijsvanDuin]

I still have deep respect for the person who wrote an Unlambda (esoteric pure functional language) interpreter in INTERCAL, and even more for the person which, based on a comment in the source code, found and fixed an integer overflow bug in it.

[@cyberking1128]

Blessed be the uploaders; Programmers are also Human (PBUT). May our minds be opened by their wisdom and our burdens lightened by their humor. Let us rejoice in the unity and fellowship they foster in the hallowed halls of KZbin and beyond. Amen, and may the algorithms ever favor their content.

[@oserodal2702]

Why does it feel like he would consider Rust an esolang, but hates it because it has real-world usage?

[@DavidPlass]

Because he does.

[@thalber]

i am amazed that they gave this character a vaguely positive character arc. all the other recurring characters only become MORE of a threat to society over time, but this guy - now knows he's autistic - focuses less on bullying people - discusses mass-transit

[@MelancolicoCatrin]

sigma sigma sigma skibidi... I died here

[@GSBarlev]

A modern update to the SMBC comic about the "most elegant programming language ever created" having been written by twelve year olds: C8==D++

[@NilesBlackX]

@@GSBarlev Can you put a boner array in your butt loop?

[@TRDiscordian]

I'm only 1min into this, but as someone who has written a most efficient interpreter for an esolang, and my own language spec, and an interpreter on my Switch for that language, this video seems extremely accurate.

[@DontAatMe]

"I forgot my syntax. I wrote this language like 3 languages ago." 😂😂 Bro Im dying!! Im not going to pretend I understood everything you said, but the little bit I did understand was absolutely hilarious! I really needed that laugh. You've earned my subscription. Thank you!!!❤

[@johanngambolputty5351]

Took me a while to notice the templeos in the background... nice.

[@krpp]

I was waiting for the APL joke. It was beautiful.

[@chitra___]

Noob here, I didn't get it

[@TeroKeskiValkama]

​@@chitra___, he read it aloud like it was occult script. You can't read it aloud, it's just a bunch of unpronounceable symbols.

[@davidreghay3629]

Omg, the scoff at the blank paper of printed out whitespace code

[@yds6268]

Gentoo boot menu is Turing complete?!

[@qlum]

You can compile grub with lua support I think or could at some point.

[@zekicay]

Grub's menu system should be turing-complete, it has alu, branches, and with `source` + `normal`, you can even have multiple source files and a call stack.

[@monad_tcp]

grub2 is turing complete, you can source your own script, thus creating an infinite loop

[@A5A5A5A5h]

GRUB has a LISP API IIRC

[@chattphotos]

There perfect programming languages and those that are used (they do not overlap)

[@joseduarte9823]

TempleOS on the PC was a nice touch

[@HeatSeekingVelociraptor]

I don't why I never noticed this before, but this character (and a few others) sound exactly like Strong Bad.

[@CompanionCube]

5:19 this actually reminds me of something philosophical; you think you have all the time in the world, until you don‘t have any time left

[@AConversationOn]

// Start of main program // Push 'h' ASCII value (104) // Push 'i' ASCII value (105) // Push 'l' ASCII value (108) // Push 'a' ASCII value (97) // Push 'r' ASCII value (114) // Push 'i' ASCII value (105) // Push 'o' ASCII value (111) // Push 'u' ASCII value (117) // Push 's' ASCII value (115) // Push ';' ASCII value (59) // Print the characters on the stack until the stack is empty

[@johanngambolputty5351]

Wouldn't it have to be a dequeue or you're going to pop them out in reverse order for printing? 😜

[@Puschit1]

I am understanding less and less, yet, it somehow becomes even funnier.

[@Caminante-blanco]

This is so great! I literally got to take a class with Chomsky at the UofA

[@Skwisgar2322]

HAHAHA, I was waiting for the white space reference, the printout of it was a perfect joke.

[@tedtran7855]

This is the most accurate one yet, wow. Especially the body and facial hair lmao

[@davidzwitser]

Loved the APL parseltongue. APL’s are the best non-esolang esolangs

[@unl0ck998]

The production is amazing, set dressing, everything

[@willmarsman1765]

"Do you happen to have a PS2 adapter for me" LMAO so good right off the bat

[@hikerwolfspaine8200]

Zig mentioned. Alert! Zig mentioned.

[@Cerlancism]

Brainfog is the censored version

[@westbywest]

I'm really liking this documentary channel so cleverly disguised as satire.

[@yohaanmaster]

> Write "hello world" in 5d brainfuck with multiverse time travel > Fork statements? what's that > Turing tarpits? my time in the army taught me one thing: it's that tar, tar never changes > Put "esolang dev" on CV > Mfw i become senior product manager at meta

[@neuvocastezero1838]

"Errors are for beginners, we only do 'undefined behavior'".

[@marianhreads]

"variables and symbols and all of this bloat" 😂

[@Ryu-ix8qs]

The whitespace joke got me lol

[@azaleacolburn]

ioccc moment

[@DreySF]

Fckn amazing, 😂 thank you!

[@s1v7]

5:45 "this one can detect if the program halts" - i would be curious to see it as well )))

[@satibel]

"it detects if the program halts?!?" got me. (for those who don't know, the halting problem is a famous impossible algorithm.)

[@rperanen]

As someone interested in compilers this was a blast. Thank you!

[@SuperXzm]

"But the pride remains forever" I died

[@bevengersio]

"This one can detect if the program halts. This one can detect if the program halts?" Fav line.

[@Evilanious]

"It's the journey that matters. The longer, the better." That's gold!

[@hugmynutus]

"I have too many computer science degrees to be employable."

[@tinkeringengr]

1:35 "still better than javascript" --- !!!!! hahahahaa

[@TechNolaByte]

I love the TempleOS cameo appearance

[@CordialBuffoon]

"Errors are for beginners! We only do undefined behavior" Deep belly laughs

[@aichrist]

Thanks for the templeos reference

[@ShadowKestrel]

oh wow this is bringing back some memories. insert meme of 'i should call her' with my old esolangs wiki acc

[@nakoskyranos4080]

I am a casual who can't even code, but I still get a lot of the jokes! how? what a comedic genious!

[@mololabo]

If I hadn't failed my university studies, this is probably what I would've ended up as. Gotta love esolangs.

[@SplendidKunoichi]

would not begin to understand until asking myself "did he just eat something from his foot"

[@LinusBerglund]

This makes me think about that Dan Friedman's 60th birthday video when Oleg Kiselyov had a talk, said something like "... the natural step is of course..." and then had a slide with so many nested call/cc:s that the audience burst out laughing.

[@CristianVasquez]

'This one can detect that the program halts' 😂 Suscribed

[@danick_lachapelle]

"there are perfect programming languages and then there's those that are used" is so related 😭

[@recklessroges]

"It can tell if the program halts... Wait!" lol

[@jeffreymorris1752]

Like we used to say in the real swampfoot trenches of academia, RCC8 my homework.

[@RedstonekPL]

kinda surprised richie guix didnt mention dawn, the subleq-only os

[@MrAlanCristhian]

2x COME_FROMs 🤣

[@MunnyLerner]

I was waiting for the obligatory APL (or J) reference... I wasn't disappointed

[@BadTeacherUA]

Аааааа! Extremely fun, thanks!

[@DrCoomerHvH]

Another amazing "Programmers are also human" video release

[@optimisticlucio6124]

i'm fucking crying, it's so good

[@audas]

Do one on first week computer science student and also senior execs dealing with changes in the project.

[@jaznokle4754]

this is art.

[@reallyWyrd]

Wait, I just got it-- re "I wasted my time": I think Rickie Guix-Intercal had convinced himself that the *act* of doing the interview, given that there's branching realities, would effectively *program* a compiler into existence or something. *That's* why he expects the interviewer to explain it back to him in BNF. Or am I reading too much into it?

[@Johnhazrd]

Hold on, I forgot my syntax, I wrote this language like three languages ago. Classic

[@b3stbuddy]

The subtitle font is perfection!

[@f1f1s]

Knuth’s Computer Modern that he developed in METAFONT for TeX... after he developed METAFONT for TeX.

[@jimmiller9330]

And these are the people we trust to code self driving cars.

[@oranellis]

"This one detects if the program halts" is so funny omg

[@pdgiddie]

"3 GOTOs and 2 COME FROMs" 🤣

[@StreetInPink]

“I wasted my time!”

[@Gatheru_x]

😂😂😂😂

[@Wyvernnnn]

I'm terrified of whether this is a set or an actual room in his house

[@Pongant]

Brb, implementing COME FROMs for rust

[@v.nd.tt.s8943]

I was eating borshch and then when Smetana came in, I suddenly realized what my borshch was lacking.

[@Константин-и7ф4ж]

> "Join the elite. The elite requires some form of masochism. Technomasochism."

[@marianarlt]

FKN GENIUS!

[@HoloTheDrunk]

As a Befunge IDE developer I feel personally attacked and you would be hearing from the lawyers I could've hired with money from working on actually useful projects if I had it

[@Swampdragon102]

This is the most relatable video as of yet. Oh no.

[@aafjeyakubu5124]

I can't keep up. I need to watch this a few more times. Laughing way too much.

[@johanrojassoderman5590]

"We don't work with errors ... A good debugger is the base of any good language". 😂

[@ZenonLite]

ZIG MENTIONED!