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New Languages

Zine by Daniel Temkin is a collection of unconventional programming languages, such as coding with light, musical notation or file folders:

A printed collection of my programming languages, including info on all the languages below. 24 pages, available from Transfer Gallery for $CHEAP (or reach out to me; I love to trade for other zines / art books).

The collection is an extension of the artist’s tumblr blog @esoteric-codes

Recieved two zines and a mini-floppy disk from Daniel Temkin

YEEP!EEP!EEP! zine and disk Yeep!Eep!Eep! (2010) “YEEP creates images reminiscent of computer error using the unique retro pseudographics of the Commodore 64. By manipulating the VIC registers, YEEP generates images based on data that happens to be in RAM at the time, and what was on the screen just before the program ran.” http://danieltemkin.com/YeepEepEep

New Languages zine. (2016)

New languages here means programming languages : formal constructed languages designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. The one you see on the cover is called Folders - code is written with folders. In VELATO it’s written in music. ENTROPY corrodes data when it’s used and so we now have a Drunk Eliza. TIME OUT works between the lines of code and VARIATIONS in C++ explores how our habits of communication affect what we write for the machine.

Mindboggling, beautifull, playfull, strange, weird, odd, mysterious, rambling, anarchistic, unefficient, irrational, eratic, crazed, not useable, insane, masochistic, destabilizing, alienating, esoteric, esolang (esoteric programming language) : a computer programming language designed to experiment with weird ideas, to be hard to program in, or as a joke, rather than for practical use. Developping esolangs gave programmers a release from the constraints of traditional communication with the machine. To us they reveal a potential, a possibility. Code I can’t understand but seem to feel.

>+++++++++[<++++++++>-]<.>+++++++[<++++>-] <+.+++++++..+++.>>>++++++++[<++++>-] <.>>>++++++++++[<+++++++++>-]<—.<<<<.+++.——.——–.>>+. HEllO WORld written in Brainfuck : a tiny but fully-functional language, doing away with any niceties for the programmer. This compiler understands only eight symbols, all punctuation marks, which map directly to assembly commands. Letters and numbers are ignored entirely. The effect is to expose the underlying logic of the code behind the code and so give us insight in how computer programs and also other languages make us think.