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> However, in cases where people say that some language is bad, it means that it simply does not fit their tasks.

I disagree. It is possible for a language to simply be a bad language. Intercal is intentionally so. I will refrain from mentioning unintentionally bad languages in order to avoid a flame war.

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If the task is to show everyone their own steepness, then isotheric languages are a good choice. Isn't it? If people did not confuse causes and consequences, it would be more boring to live without sacred wars. It is not correct to call a language bad. But it is correct to call a language not suitable for a specific task.

In fact, the flame wars can also be useful as an advertisement.

Nobody would have accused Brainfuck of being a good language but it turns out that its radical simplicity works well for integrating with optimization algorithms for creating self-programming AIs. It's all about a niche, except INTERCAL, you're right about INTERCAL.

Wait, what? I really want to see some links or papers about that. Care to share?

https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05703 is the best one which is explained in these blog posts http://www.primaryobjects.com/2013/01/27/using-artificial-in...

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