Prompt 5 of 7
Name a programming language
78 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- APL— Invented by Ken Iverson with its own symbol alphabet, so dense that a full sorting program fits in one line. Keyboards had to be specially made to type it.
85 ptsDeep Cut34 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- ActionScript
- ALGOL
- Awk
- Befunge
- Chef— Programs written as cooking recipes. CAN HAZ FACTORIAL?
- CoffeeScript
- Crystal
- D
- Elm
- Emojicode
- Forth
- Groovy
- HolyC— Terry Davis built TempleOS, an entire operating system, in his own homemade language. Programming's strangest solo achievement.
- Intercal
- Logo
- LOLCODE
- Malbolge— Designed to be impossible to write. The first functional program took two years.
- Mojo
- Nim
- OCaml
- Ook!
- Piet
- PostScript
- Racket
- Raku
- Rockstar
- SAS
- Shakespeare— A language where variable assignments look like Shakespearean monologues.
- Simula
- Solidity
- Tcl
- Unlambda
- Velato
- Zig
60 ptsRare25 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Ada
- Assembly
- Bash
- BASIC
- Clojure
- COBOL
- Dart
- Elixir
- Erlang
- F#
- Fortran
- Haskell
- Julia
- Lisp
- Lua
- Objective-C
- Pascal
- Perl
- PowerShell
- Prolog
- Scala
- Scheme
- Scratch
- Smalltalk
- Visual Basic
30 ptsSchooler13 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- C
- C#
- C++
- Go
- Kotlin
- MATLAB
- PHP
- R
- Ruby
- Rust
- SQL
- Swift
- TypeScript
15 ptsToo Clever2 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Brainfuck— The programmers' smug picks-at-parties language. The school coded 'Hello World' in it for exactly this moment.
- Whitespace— A language where only spaces, tabs, and newlines matter. You are insufferably delighted by this, and fairly so.
10 ptsPlankton3 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python