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Re: Interesting Programming Languages

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Post by pbiggar » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 6:04 PM UTC

yawaramin wrote: post #20

digaozao wrote: post #19

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Where can u read about dark? The site has no docs on it.

Paul Biggar blogs about it on their Medium blog.

Link for the lazy: https://medium.com/darklang

Re: Interesting Programming Languages

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Post by ghaberek » Mon, Jul 15, 2019, 7:04 PM UTC

Thanks for including Euphoria in this! Nice to see our language still getting some love.

Re: Interesting Programming Languages

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Post by thanatropism » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 4:18 AM UTC

bctnry wrote: post #42

thanatropism wrote: post #33

Of note: Hy.

As another lisp dialect Hy might not be interesting enough.

It’s rather nonstandard, since it has to follow Python closely.

Has no cons or let. OTOH: has defmacro.

Re: Interesting Programming Languages

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Post by raja_mukherji » Tue, Jul 16, 2019, 8:24 AM UTC

cryptonector wrote: post #43

Missing: Icon. I think Icon is a fascinating language in spite of being dynamically-typed. I've not used it in many years though. What makes Icon interesting is that its functions ("procedures" in Icon terminology) are essentially generators in that they can "fail" (prune, produce no [further] results), or "suspend" results as many times as desired. "Failure" drives backtracking. So it's Prolog-like, but with Algol-f…

The first time I tried using Icon (over 20 years ago), I couldn't get my head around generators and back-tracking. Then I tried it again a year or two later and it suddenly clicked. But then I missed the availability of libraries in C, and the module structure of Modula 3.

So I rolled my own, (https://wrapl.github.io), combining Icon's goal directed evaluation with modules, classes, and lots of C library bindings. Unfortunately I wrote a lot of it in 32 bit x86 assembly, so it's due a proper rewrite but I still use it for prototyping and text / data processing today.

Re: Interesting Programming Languages

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Post by btbytes » Sun, Jul 21, 2019, 2:07 AM UTC

soapdog wrote: post #53

btbytes wrote: post #37

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I'm the author. You are right. I think the above are all "mainstream" enough for me. At the least, I've installed and played with them all at one time.

Hey, I like your list. Now, tell us, from that list, is there a favourite language? Some you'd pick up to write simple tools for your own personal usage...

nim/zig/red.

* I already use nim and I'm very productive in it. * Would like to use Zig for "system programming" when and if something like Nim (and D) are inadequate. * Red because its a REBOL and it can be a mind blowing experience to read some clever REBOL/Red code.