Languages Based On Symbols Instead of Keywords
- APL – A language based on mathematical notation and abstractions.
- Brainfuck – A minimalist esoteric programming language, created for the purpose of having a compiler fit in fewer than 256 bytes. Its predecessor P′′ used to prove assertions about structured programming languages and also used symbols.
- FALSE – A stack-based minimalist esoteric programming language with syntax consisting mainly of single non-alphanumeric characters
- Piet – An art-based esoteric programming language
- Plankalkül – An early language, which uses a symbolic tabular notation, developed by German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse
- Velato – An esoteric language whose commands are determined by the sequence of notes in a MIDI file
- Whitespace – An esoteric language based on whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, and line breaks)
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