Beatnik is a simple stack-oriented esoteric programming language, by Cliff L. Biffle.
A Beatnik program consists of any sequence of English words.
Each word is assigned the score one would get for it in a Scrabble game.
The value of the score determines what function is performed.
[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The interpreter reads the words in the poem, ignoring punctuation and whitespace and newlines.