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Bruce Adams
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Should frivolous questions about esolangs be on topic?

Looking at https://langdev.stackexchange.com/questions/2090/could-a-programming-language-work-where-variables-are-only-differentiated-by-fon/2091#2091

It seems somewhat frivolous and likely to invites a family of similarly frivolous questions like "could a programming language be based on cats"

I feel that a less frivolous version of this question would be something like "what are the pros and cons of a language using fonts to distinguish variables" or similarly in reference to prior art.

On the other hand questions about esolangs are (as far as I know) considered on topic.

Should we close such questions and is the close reason of "needs more focus" correct?