I found a couple of interesting programming languages while browsing around last night. The first would be SPL: The Shakespeare Programming Language. It’s pretty far out, considering that every program reads like a play. It seems like it’d be good for confusing someone, since it’s actually human-readable. And the ‘plays’ make some sort of odd sense, even though they are composed mostly of insults.

For another odd programming language, there is Perligata… which is Perl that can be written in Latin.  It’d probably make Perl programming somewhat easier for me, if I could ever figure out Latin. Ah well.

And then if you want to get really obscure,  there is Whitespace. All programs are composed entirely of spaces, tabs and new lines. Anything else gets ignored. I can’t wrap my head around how this works, but it apparently does (at least enough to write some sample programs available on the site).  It’s downright crazy, if you ask me.

Of course, if those aren’t enough to make you go crazy, you can always go check out more weird programming languages.

Personally? I think I’ll stick to ‘normal’ languages… and likely count myself (slightly) saner for it.