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What does Golfing mean?

SUBLEQ a b c = ;Mem[b] = Mem[b] - Mem[a]
;if (Mem[b] ≤ 0) goto c
What is so special about this instruction?

Did you know that there are more than thirty five languages in the C family?

Babel is about how programming is different in various languages.

There are thousands of languages to program in, and new ones are coming up each day. For this event, however, we divide them all into three families :

Strict languages : Languages like C/C++, Java, Visual Studio family, OCaml etc. These are usually close to the system. They can do just about anything, and are usually efficient (efficiency in Java is a joke ).

Scripting languages : PERL, PHP, Ruby, Python, Lisp etc. These are aimed at making the prorgammers' lives easy, and have a rich syntax and libraries. However, they are not all that strict and donot prevent you from writing bad/crappy/obfuscated/nonsensical/underhanded/plain evil code.

Esoteric languages : BrainF**k,Assembly and a ton of other weird languages. These have one thing in common. A programmer cannot think naturally and write programs in them. Why are they there? Some of them are indispensible, some of them just have a steep learning curve and are actually cool, and some of them are good fun!