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I suppose it's only right they focused on HUMAN languages, otherwise you'd see machine language up there. Most forms of assembly have always felt like a different language to me ...

Someone needs to invent "gibberish" or "crazy cat lady". What kinds of humorous programming languages are there? The only one I can think of off the top of my head is INTERCAL

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Whitespace, Shakespeare, LOLCode, Homespring (the Salmon-oriented programming language), and of course, Visual Basic.

Edit: the "Visual Basic" was my attempt at a joke, but then I googled in "Invisible Basic", thinking that some crafty hacker out for a laugh would have made such a thing. Unfortunately, I don't think this http://invisiblebasic.sourceforge.net/ is a joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakespeare_(programming_langua...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE

http://xeny.net/files/Homespring-Proposed-Language-Standard.... [PDF link]

My favorite is kvikkalkul. Its source looks like full of smileys :)

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