Esoteric programming language

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What Wikipedia says

An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) or weird language is a programming language designed to test the boundaries of computer programming language design as a proof of concept, as software art, as a hacking interface to another language (particularly functional programming or procedural programming languages), or as a joke.

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