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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by maxharris on Sunday July 07, 2019 @12:54PM (#20376076)
John Backus's FL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxcT4vK01-w

IBM research really should release the FL compiler they wrote! They stopped working on it in the early 90s, and haven't said a single thing about it since.

There is the beginnings of a Haskell implementation that I tried to mess with a bit, but I don't know enough Haskell to get anywhere: https://github.com/jgrimes/fl-hs

Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by a-saleh on Monday July 08, 2019 @03:28AM (#20380634)
Rumour has it that J language could be a good successor to FL? But trying to learnin an APL dialect after I just finished learning Golang is ... tricky to say the least :)