Penguin
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The programming lamguage used to layout references in bibtex(1) bibliographies.

The language is a PostScript-like, stack driven language, with special operations for manipulating names (reducing forenames to their initials etc) and a complete ban on recusion (it gives the error message Curse on you, wizard, before you recurse on me).

Despite bibtex(1) being widely used, very few people program BST----StuartYeates