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Beatnik

Beatnik was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle as a derisive term to refer to the beats, i.e. members of the Beat Generation (this was a play off the name of the Russian satellite Sputnik).

The members of this group challenged traditional patterns of respectability, and rebelled against former generations by openly using illegal drugs and openly having sex.

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Beatnik is a simple esoteric programming language, based on a stack. A beatnik program consists of any sequence of English words. Each word is assigned the score you would get for it in a Scrabble® game. More information is available at http://www.cliff.biffle.org/esoterica/beatnik.html.

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