I just learned that there's a programming language called brain**** (no caps). It's probably the least practical language ever made. The point of making it was to challenge programmers by creating a language with the smallest compilator possible (at the moment it was 200 bytes). The language itself is made of 8 commands (> < + - . , [ ]), and the program - a sequence of these commands (with a few exceptions). If there are symbols in the program that aren't commands, they're treated as comments.

Here's "Hello World" in brain****:

++++++++++[>+++++++>++++++++++>
+++>+<<<<-]>++.>+.+++++++..+++.
>++.<<+++++++++++++++.>.+++.——.
——--.>+.>.

Why not just program in machine?

Brain**** has nothing on Whitespace, or Piet, but I still like it. To be honest, I thought it would be funny if I did my Senior Capstone project in Brain****.

Oh yes, A full list of esoteric languages.

Bah, forgot LOLCODE, also an instant classic.

Eh, it is probably easier to write the opcodes in binary than it is to write something in brain****.

Its got nothing on Intercal, but I think the worst is probably Malbolge.