This dimension groups programming languages by the ACM subject area they fall under. Wikipedia notes the ACM Computing Classification System "is a subject classification system for computing devised by the Association for Computing Machinery," and programming language theory is one of its recognized areas. Browsing this way collects every language classified under the same ACM area.
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1. Wikipedia: Esoteric programming language
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The earliest, and still the canonical example of an esoteric programming language, is INTERCAL, designed in 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, who said that their intention was to create a programming language unlike any with which they were familiar, namely FORTRAN, BASIC, COBOL, ALGOL, SNOBOL, SPITBOL, FOCAL, SOLVE, TEACH, APL, LISP, and PL/I.
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