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=== Chicken === Chicken has just three tokens, the word "chicken", " " (the space character), and the newline character. The compiler interprets the number of "chickens" on a line as an opcode instruction which it uses to manipulate data on a stack. A simple chicken program can contain dozens of lines with nothing but the word "chicken" repeated countless times.<ref>{{Cite web|title="Hello world" in Esoteric Programming Languages? (Esolangs)|url=https://dev.to/jbc7ag/hello-world-in-esoteric-programming-languages-esolangs-5122|access-date=2022-12-04|website=DEV Community 👩💻👨💻|date=25 July 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Chicken was invented by Torbjörn Söderstedt who drew his inspiration for the language from a parody of a scientific dissertation.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-08-08|title=Weirdest Programming Languages {{!}} Programming|url=https://www.omnesgroup.com/weirdest-programming/|access-date=2022-12-04|website=www.omnesgroup.com|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=27 April 2022|title=8 Goofy Programming Languages|url=https://www.thecodingspace.com/blog/2022-04-27-8-goofy-programming-languages/}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hongkiat.com |date=2021-09-08 |title=10 Most Bizarre Programming Languages, Vol. 2 |url=https://www.hongkiat.com/blog/bizarre-insane-programming-languages/ |access-date=2022-12-04 |website=Hongkiat |language=en-US}}</ref>
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