Esolangs like whitespace and befunge were what sparked my interest in programming languages. :-)
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I do remember as an undergrad spending far too long with an Intercal program, finally getting it, and thinking "wow that was beautiful". Maybe they are worth studying :).
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Let me tell you why, at least from my perspective. When I was a student at UBA, Argentina, I heard of Whitespace in the main PL course. It was not a joke, it was a philosophy. It was like Number 9 from The Beatles: stretching the limits of what's possible, even if unheardable. 1/
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Similarly, Whitespace was stretching the notion of syntax, and what it means to be "turing complete". Several years later, when I learned that you were behind it, I thought "it makes sense, now he's stretching the notion of types" (luckily, a nice song this time :-) ) 2/2
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