Dėlioninės, vaizdinės ir tekstinės programavimo kalbos.

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Lithuanian term or phrase: Dėlioninės, vaizdinės ir tekstinės programavimo kalbos.
A part of the university course programme:

Algoritminės konstrukcijos.
Programavimo kalbos ir aplinkos.
*Dėlioninės*, vaizdinės ir tekstinės programavimo kalbos.

Any idea about *Dėlioninės programavimo kalbos*?

Thank you in advance.
Vitals
Lithuania
Local time: 00:06


Summary of answers provided
4esoteric, visual and text-based programming languages
Valters Feists
3puzzle languages
diana bb


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puzzle languages


Explanation:
http://prog21.dadgum.com/38.html

Example sentence(s):
  • A critical element of puzzle languages is providing an escape, a way to admit that the pretty solution is elusive, and it's time to get working code regardless of aesthetics.
diana bb
Lithuania
Local time: 00:06
Native speaker of: Lithuanian
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esoteric, visual and text-based programming languages


Explanation:
Esoteric languages (esolangs) is a quite well-known concept and practice in programming. It is used for experiments, training/learning and for humour.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language

Its subcategory are joke languages.
https://esolangs.org/wiki/Joke_language_list
(“...list of esoteric languages that are not of any interest except for potential humor value. Generally speaking, they are completely unusable for programming even in theory, trivial and less interesting variations…”)

One may wonder why a university course topic title would mention the esoteric languages first (!) and the normal languages as 2nd and 3rd. My explanation is that the students taking the course already know about the broad categories of programming languages (visual, text-based), therefore the professor has decided to start with a more entertaining aspect to engage the students' attention.

It may also start a debate whether and how such languages contribute something practical to IT.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1508581/is-there-any-prac...

Example sentence(s):
  • The earliest, and still the canonical example of an esoteric language was INTERCAL, designed in 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon, with the stated intention of being unlike any other programming language the authors were familiar with.
  • Glass is an esoteric programming language developed by Gregor Richards in 2005. It combines an unintuitive postfix notation with heavy object-orientation, requiring extensive juggling of a main stack combined with its object-oriented structure.

    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language
    Reference: http://tutorialzine.com/2013/12/the-10-weirdest-programming-...
Valters Feists
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