# Dan Temkin - Forty-Four Esolangs

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Podcast: [Advent of Computing](https://stenobird.com/podcast/advent-of-computing-497186)
Published: 2026-03-09T00:30:00+00:00
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## Resource

Dan Temkin has been a long time friend of the show. I finally got the chance to sit down and talk with him about one of his latest projects. Forty-Four Esolangs is a "The first artist's monograph of programming languages". During this interview we keep circling around one very crucial question: what really is a programming language? Get the book and learn more about esolangs here: https://danieltemkin.com/Esolangs

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