You might have written your first code in programming languages such as C/C++ or Java. And might have faced difficulty learning these languages. Well, these languages are at least readable or understandable but what if we say to write a program printing ‘Hello World!‘ using spaces, tabs, and linefeeds only. We are not joking and actually there are some programming languages in the world where you need to write your code using some commands or syntax which is neither readable nor understandable. They are also considered as the most difficult programming languages in the world and maybe you will get to know about these languages for the first time so let’s discuss these languages one by one.
Most Difficult Programming Languages
1. Brainfuck
As the name suggests, this language is really complicates and coding in this language is really difficult. It’s build in 1993 by Urban Muller and the main purpose to create this language was to write minimal lines of code. This language operates in an array of memory cells and there are only 8 commands defined in this language to write any program.
Example: Hello World! Program
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Check the output of this code from here.
2. Cow
We know that the name of this language sounds a funny name for you .But it is actually a programming language and it was created by Sean Heber in 2003. This language consists of 12 instructions. And the funniest thing about this language is the keyword ‘moo’ (sound of a cow) or it’s variations used in this language. Writing any other character or word considered as a comment in this language. It was based on the language used in Turing Machine.
Example: Hello World! Program
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3. Intercal
This language was created in 1972 by Don Woods and James M. Lyon and they both were students at Princeton University. This language doesn’t have any pronounceable acronym. Creators of this programming language included keywords like Read out, Ignore, Please, Forget, and likewise to make this language user-friendly. The funny thing about this language is that it expects 4 Please keyword in code to check programmers politeness. If it will be less the code won’t execute because it will consider the programmer is insufficiently polite. If it will be 5 or more than 5 then also it won’t execute because it will consider the programmer is overly polite.
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5. Whitespace
This language was introduce by Edwin Brady and Chris Morris on 1st April 2003 (April fools day). The day that they show it to people thought it was a joke but it wasn’t actually. You are allowed to use only spaces, tabs, and linefeeds to write your code in this language. Any other character will be ignored by the interpreter.
6.Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Programming Language (SPL) is an esoteric programming language designed by Jon Åslund and Karl Hasselström. Like the Chef programming language. It is designed to make programs appear to be something other than programs – in this case, Shakespearean plays.
A character list in the beginning of the program declares a number of stacks, naturally with names like “Romeo” and “Juliet”. These characters enter into dialogue with each other in which they manipulate each other’s topmost values, push and pop each other, and do I/O. The characters can also ask each other questions which behave as conditional statements. On the whole, the programming model is very similar to assembly language but much more verbose.