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Ask HN: What is your favourite unpopular programming language?
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#22Lua is pretty nice. Great memory footprint, easy to embed, and you can use LuaJIT if you want to trade extra memory usage for extra speed.
The best integration so far is probably Nginx:
https://blog.cloudflare.com/pushing-nginx-to-its-limit-with-...
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#23F#. Beautiful language, clean and concise, encourages functional programming without mandating it, type inference gives the benefits of static typing without the boilerplate. And it's a .Net language so you have the full .Net ecosystem, eliminating most of the disadvantages of using a minority language.
I am actually playing with F# quite a bit. It is definitely forcing me to rethink the way I am setting up my C# applications.
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#24Prolog. Extraordinarily simple model (you can implement an interpreter in a few hundred lines of code); yet extraordinarily powerful for solving many kinds of discrete-math (e.g. parsing, graph theory) problems.
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#25J is mind expanding.
So is datura.
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#26I am burning a candle for Nim, formerly Nimrod. I like the brevity of the code I write using the language. I feel it has very few drawbacks, but I wish there were more of a community around it.
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#27CFML (language behind ColdFusion and open-source variants). Very approachable by beginners. Web console by default, no need to jack with config files. No database connection strings or convoluted models, just put SQL in and get a recordset. Simple data structure. Ease of HTML syntax, but power of c-like scripting if you want it. Backed by JVM, so can extend it in all the ways you'd imagine, and can also write extensions in CFML if you'd like. I do mostly Ruby these days, but I spent a long time doing CFML, so I'll always be fond of it.
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#28If popularity is not measured in the sheer amount of code written or programmers, then I would have to say Java. It has to be the most publicly shamed language. It's not really the language itself I enjoy. It's IntelliJ. Seriously, IntelliJ makes writing Java code insanely fast.
> I'm specifically gearing this toward obscure languages -- in other words, not PHP and Java, because although nearly everybody hates those languages, nearly everybody knows them too. Languages with bad reputations that are no longer common count, though (like COBOL and FORTRAN).
(From the OP)
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#29I like PostScript. When you want absolute control over a vector image, it's the way to go, and if you set up your macros right (that is "procedures") it can be quite easy to modify and reuse.
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#30The most fun I had coding in recent years was writing a couple simple games to run on an Atari 2600 emulator. All kinds of hoops to jump through to get stuff on the screen, but somehow all the effort just made it more fun. I should do some more of that.
Solid intro tutorial here - http://www.atariage.com/2600/programming/2600_101/