The list seems rather arbitrary. To add to the list, I would consider also: CLIPS, Coq, Dhall, Factor, Inform, Stan.
Good call on Inform. It's certainly both novel and useful.
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#32Has anyone actually used these in production or a feasible side project?
Looking forward to implement sparse voxel octree code with iterative mesh refinement with Chapel. I forgot about it, because it was unusable for GPUs back when I first had contact.
And now it seems good enough for non-GPU code and maybe even GPU code in comparison to C++.
I expect a few 10s of TB ram to be required for a specific dataset, which practically rules out any shared-memory approach. Clusters should be better above a few hundred GB anyway, maybe less depending on network bandwidth vs. RAM needs.
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#33Of note: Hy.
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#34Has anyone actually used these in production or a feasible side project?
I have not used it personally, but Elixir is certainly in use in quite a few production environments.
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#35UrWeb deserves a mention as well: https://github.com/urweb/urweb
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#36Notably missing: APL (Dyalog), J, Prolog, Rebol (Red is on the list), PicoLisp, Racket, Factor, 8th (Reva was mentioned and that was the creator's prior project), and Haskell. Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.
> Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.
While an interesting language may be obscure, an obscure language is not necessarily interesting. In many cases, being relatively well known is a benefit simply because it offers more exposure to new ideas.
I have found languages such as Forth, Racket, and Smalltalk far more valuable primarily because they are sufficiently accessible to be practical learning tools.
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#37Notably missing: APL (Dyalog), J, Prolog, Rebol (Red is on the list), PicoLisp, Racket, Factor, 8th (Reva was mentioned and that was the creator's prior project), and Haskell. Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.
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.
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#38Notably missing: APL (Dyalog), J, Prolog, Rebol (Red is on the list), PicoLisp, Racket, Factor, 8th (Reva was mentioned and that was the creator's prior project), and Haskell. Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.
> Maybe most of the above are too mainstream for the list.
I'd agree with Haskell and Prolog, and probably people could guess based on the "Lisp" part of PicoLisp, but having experience with Rebol - no one I've mentioned it to has heard of it. I don't think it's mainstream at all.
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#39I was hoping these would be more unusual.
My favorite thing is an impractically novel - maybe even intentionally useless - programming language. A way to describe a space of things that's truly alien; not even necessarily identifiable as a "programming language" aside from being interpretable by machines.
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#40Has anyone actually used these in production or a feasible side project?
I use Rebol for almost all my side projects; it's the first language I learned back around 2000, and the direct ancestor of Red, which is on the list.