Ask HN: Does such a programming language exist?

#1

Post by plaban123 » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 6:42 PM UTC

A language that is simple and readable like Python, is static and strongly typed, supports multi paradigm and leverages multi cores or has non blocking IO.

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#2

Post by Rottweiler » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

And compiles to machine code. Please.

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#3

Post by vezzy-fnord » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

OCaml, with a caveat that it's "or has non-blocking I/O", though ostensibly SMP is on its way.

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#4

Post by angersock » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 7:27 PM UTC

C.

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#5

Post by aninteger » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 8:05 PM UTC

Nim

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#6

Post by dragonbonheur » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 8:29 PM UTC

FreeBASIC. It is simple, has OOP features, Strongly typed, it has threads and is compiled.

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#7

Post by setpatchaddress » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 9:07 PM UTC

No. I assume by 'simple and readable,' you mean that you want whitespace to be significant. Most languages don't do the Pythonesque 'look! executable pseudocode! (hope you like underscores though!)' thing.

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#8

Post by informatimago » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 9:43 PM UTC

ADA.

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#9

Post by divs1210 » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 10:22 PM UTC

Julia

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#10

Post by woah » Sat, Jul 18, 2015, 10:27 PM UTC

vezzy-fnord wrote: post #3

OCaml, with a caveat that it's "or has non-blocking I/O", though ostensibly SMP is on its way.

Wrong or right, I don't think that most people would consider ocaml simple to read.