David Morgan-Mar
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David Morgan-Mar (aka DangerMouse) is a Ph.D. graduate from the University of Sydney, Australia, best known online for Irregular Webcomic! and for creating several humorous esoteric programming languages. He is also the author of several GURPS roleplaying sourcebooks for Steve Jackson Games, as well as a regular contributor to Pyramid magazine.
The languages he has created have had varying degrees of popularity. Some of them are full Turing-complete languages while others are simple jokes.
From his website, the list of languages:[1]
- BIT, which treats all data like C treats strings
- Chef, where the programs produce magnificent meals
- Haifu, based on Eastern philosophy and artistic values
- HQ9++, which extends the elegance of HQ9+ to the object-oriented paradigm
- Ook!, designed for orangutans
- Piet, where the programs are works of modern art
- Whenever, with no sense of urgency
- ZOMBIE, designed for evil necromancers
His esoteric languages page also includes other esoteric computer concepts:
- LenPEG, an image-compression algorithm
- Petrovich, an operating system based on reward and punishment
