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There is nothing more frustrating for a web developer than spending hours at a time fixing a bug that should just work. Often I’ll get stuck in a programming state that feels like I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing, as if the language I’m using (CSS, PHP, whatever), is actually a foreign language.
What is the most bizarre language you have ever worked with?
Three sentences for getting success:
a) Know more than others.
b) Work more than others.
c) Expect less than others.
"William Shakespeare"
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Quote: Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren’t there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.
WHY?!?!?
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
 2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Brilliant!!
Here is why:
And that's all I have to say! In only 123 spaces!! 
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COBOL.
Come to think of it, they're all bizarre. What we need is a Plain En&^%$#&^$&*$786478.....
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VB and PHP are top of my list.
I have worked in several open source projects including MyBB and Drupal. But could never like PHP. It is just not 'fun'! Same goes for VB. I could never really fall in love with that.
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LISP was pretty weird, though XSLT is the strangest language I've actually used for work. Though, regular expressions might be considered a language in their own right, and they're pretty weird too.
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I certainly prefer Regular Expressions to XSLT and XPath.
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Missed the Malbolge[^] Language. I first saw this on an episode of Elementary.
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While I don't think anyone really works with it (it's probably just someone's grad thesis gone wild), Brainfsck[^] is the weirdest I've seen.
As far as worked with, both RegEx and XSLT are solutions that lead to, "and now you have two problems".
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TTFN - Kent
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The reporting language for a product I used to work on was the wierdest I've ever used although nothing is worse the Malbolge at least not yet.
This reporting language didn't even have a name it was just reporting script but it was unlike anything else, 5 sections to Cobols 4 ( I hope I got that right ) and each one had a different syntax from really readable stuff in one section like ORDER BY CUSTOMER to a bunch of /g style switches in another. It did the job however and the job was a scary one, multi-dimensional database analysis at speeds that would make Larry Ellison  with envy.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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