> 1. understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite
> 2. belonging to the select few
Just because some people give special meaning to the phrase "esoteric programming language," doesn't mean that people who don't know about it should be chastised for not knowing the... esoteric meaning of the phrase. This reeks of "my club uses this adjective only for this occasion, you're not using it right, you don't belong to the club, go away".
> punish, especially by beating.
I know, education is though these days.
Here, take some more beating:
> An esoteric programming language (sometimes shortened to esolang) 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. … The creators of most esolangs do not intend them to be used for mainstream programming, …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...
And the death blow, by a fun fact: week has 7 days because babylonians named them after seven planets - Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupyter, Venus, Saturn.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_planet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_wee...
Not everything is about work, especially for children.
(Source: Raised two children to adulthood.)
You can teach children programming by using any language. You can do so even more effectively by teaching them many languages, to make them learn how to program rather than how to write code in language X.
In what way? Looking at everybody I've known and worked with over my career, I'd say the correlation between how good they where at programming as a child and where they were in their career at 40 was basically zero.