The Secret Tech Advisory Board (STAB) Jonathon Oscerf
Request for Comments: 9001 June 2025
Category: Disinformational
USSN 0867-5309
The Unspecified Language
Abstract
The Unspecified Language is a language that has no specification.
Since this document is a specification, by definition of the Unspecified
Language, the language specified here is actually not the Unspecified
Language, but it should approximate the what we believe is the Unspecified
Language.
1. Introduction
The Unspecified Language (UL) was discovered in a Teams chatroom when
examining the most used programming languages determined through analytics
from a vendored LLM assistant tool. A staggering 3.6k lines of UL had been
written, beating out HTML and TSX. This was surprising as this Teams
chatroom was for a web-dev shop.
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document SHALL be RECOMMENDED to be REQUIRED to be interpreted as you
SHOULD see fit, but it MAY be OPTIONAL if you MUST.
2. Possible Schemes
2.1. LLM Response
An LLM was queried on its knowledge of UL. Its response was as follows:
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Unavailable: Encountered error from model provider:
an internal error occurred: (ID: 2d56cc831048f831c930cafedead45ae)
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2.2. Header Format
The following table describes the header format for UL files:
0 1 2 3
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| W h o R e a l l y K n o w s |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
| S t i l l D o n ' t K n o w |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
|B y t e O r d e r M a r k ( Y e s , a t b y t e 9 )|
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Despite the BOM, we recommend that UL files be UTF-8 encoded.