Piet – A programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings

Some of the sample programs are kind of amazing: http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet/samples.html

Hilarious idea.

There used to be a couple guys that would submit solutions to the qualifying round of the Google Code Jam (the round with the 25-hour time limit) in this language. I think he had to zip a png file containing his program with another file explaining of how to run it in order to submit.

Many more esoteric languages are on the esolang wiki:

https://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Enjoy :)

Slightly non technical question about these. After looking at this and BF esolang derivatives, are these esolangs essentially a category of intermediate representations that would be useful for automated software analysis? Given you can encode the language anyway you want (e.g. Ook), and while they aren't efficient for writing and running programs, they are simple, consistent (if large) inputs into an analysis engine. Is this considered a thing?

& through https://github.com/shinh/elvm here's a lisp implementation: http://shinh.skr.jp/elvm/lisp.png

Good tut: http://homepages.vub.ac.be/~diddesen/piet/index.html

I bet the people who write this language has no concept of "time" in the way they perceive the world, therefore able to time travel freely.

Tangentially related: The Whitespace Programming Language (WP[0], Homepage[1])

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua... [1] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/tutorial.html

Taking inspiration from this, my friends and I made a programming language where each program is chess games: https://github.com/VitamintK/Passant