Question

Hillel Wayne’s satirical “How to Solve the Sudoku Puzzle with Programming” concludes with a four-line program in this language, the last line of which is a comment reading, “what is WRONG with me”. The esoteric programming language Jelly is inspired by this language and its implementation of “tacit programming”. This language’s syntax for negative numbers uses underscores, as opposed to its predecessor’s use of a raised minus sign. In this language’s unusual terminology, “trains” and “forks” are syntactic structures that “verbs” and “nouns” can be arranged into, (-5[1])and individual statements are called “sentences”. Alongside GolfScript, (-5[1])this language’s terse nature caused a highly-upvoted question on the meta Code Golf StackExchange claiming that it “suck[s] all the enjoyment out of Code Golf”. For 10 points, name this descendant of APL with an ASCII (“ASS-kee”) character set, which has a (*) single-letter name. ■END■ (10[2]0[4])

ANSWER: J [prompt on “APL” before mention]
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= Average correct buzz position
Conv. %Power %Average Buzz
40%0%138.00

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Buzzes

PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Albert ZhangI thought this was a Counter-Strike themed tournamentCarnegie Lemons86-5
Andrew HunterA TV Guide for NetheadsWhy does ACF have electrons do its work?94-5
Anish JindalComputer Science: Going OutsideI Paused My Unique Game to Be Here13810
Arnav SoodCarnegie LemonsI thought this was a Counter-Strike themed tournament1380
David BassJAX guide -league -of -legends -lol -mortal -kombatEventually Munches All Computer Storage13810
Stephen EltingeWhy does ACF have electrons do its work?A TV Guide for Netheads1380
Anh Khoa TranfooThe1380
Zac BennettThefoo1380