Barkerlang

“When I first read through the notes from the estate of Profesor Bernadino De Sahagun, I found the content more than confusing: the often unnumbered and handwritten pages described a specification for a programming language that appeared strangely arcane even for the time they were written. Sahagun was always interested in numbering systems, cryptography and the aztec callendar. Until the late nineties he held a chair for distributed systems at the Ljubljana Institute of Technology. Going back to first notes in 1994 long before esoteric programming languages became a term, it described a language consisting of so-called hyper glypen and xenotics based on a cryptic number system (which is based on a kind of primfactor decomposition). Many of the terms, which first seemed to me at least esoteric, only became accessible to me partly after studying texts by Professor Barker and various other anthropological reports about the religious rites of Dibboma. Barker and Sahagun met several times on different expeditions and their common interest in number systems seemed to lead Bernadino to the idea of designing a turing complete programming language based on the xenotations discovered by Barker. Whether Sahagun had studied various other esoteric programming languages during his first draft cannot be determined perfectly: an influence of languages like BrainF**** and Malbolge is possible but not proven.”

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