Considered by many to be the canonical example of a BadProgrammingLanguage (a category which excludes purposefully EsotericProgrammingLanguage''''''s like InterCal and such). This beastie was used for production work at a major US bank. In fairness to its creators; it was originally intended as an IntermediateLanguage of sorts (to be generated only by a UI-building tool) but for some reason it got turned into a source language. ''BancStarLanguage:CommaSeparatedValues::XsltLanguage:ExtensibleMarkupLanguage'' http://web.archive.org/web/20050313023432/http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Station/2266/tarpit/bancstar.html ---- CategoryProgrammingLanguage (sort of)