What are some unusual/strange programming languages with pratical uses?
What are some unusual/strange programming languages with pratical uses?
Landon Foster
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David Sullivan
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Grayson Morales
Not a lot of people seem to know abour Zig. It's essentially what Rust wishes it could be
Brandon James
Wtf are we quora now?
Aaron Reed
Forth
Jordan Torres
Haskell. It's strange because it's objectively the best language out there but it has yet to replace every other language.
Jaxon Roberts
would you rather have another thread complaining about apple products instead?
Brayden Evans
Gabriel Morris
SQL programing languages.
Cooper Gutierrez
Javascript
Strange logic
Strange semantics
Strange data representations
Strange implementation
And yet "people" are using it.
Sebastian Evans
Matlab I guess?
Josiah Taylor
Lisp unironically. Now you won't even see it in AI because pajeets who can only use Java or are too lazy to thinka and just use Python.
Xavier Roberts
Javascript is based. Every new language nowdays is a Java copy cat.
Jace Perry
Lua. It's not that strange, but it's awesome. LuaJIT's dead but you don't need it cuz Lua is still a fuckton faster than Python.
John Baker
Lua is being used everywhere in gayman industry and embedded system
Jordan Moore
Autohotkey ;)
Lucas Foster
That will never happen since it is a runtime based languages.
However it is the best language for modeling and fintech and what not.
Joshua Wood
Racket
Gavin Clark
Go and CSP-style concurrency I guess.
Andrew Martin
python
Christian Richardson
Brainfuck.
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Levi Cruz
Fortran, Pascal, Cobol, ADA, BASIC
Hunter Nelson
>Cobol
The third largest bank in France uses an ancient mainframe programmed with COBOL to handle many critical internal services. They won't replace it because only two persons know how it works, both of whom are going to retire within the next five years. Expect major shit to go down once they put their two weeks notice in.
Tyler Miller
I thought COBOL had security issues and hence people were fleeing to new languages?
Robert Green
/ahk/ general now!
Michael Flores
PDDL/Prolog
Grayson Russell
This. For example, it would be crazy to write anything that deals with money in a language without controlled effects.
Benjamin Powell
If a company had computers in the 80s, they probably have COBOL code behind them.
COBOL on a mainframe has not any security issues.
William Hall
Emacs Lisp. It's practical (extending Emacs), and it's very unusual by modern standards.
No namespaces, no visibility control, barely any packaging tools, hundred/thousand line functions are common, yet has code that has been maintained for decades despite best practices telling us about using namespaces/packages/private members/small functions to write maintainable code.
Dynamic scoping by default.
Has both dynamic and lexical scoping in the same language.
Has readable closures.
Adrian King
>Dynamic scoping by default.
wrong
Nicholas Fisher
Logical Ladder
For design circuits
Clips
For expert systems and scheduler system used by NASA looks like C + Lisp and prolog
Hudson Flores
Tcl/Tk. Great for quick GUIs and scripting.