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Re:Weird Languages by OliverM on Saturday August 28, 2021 @06:20AM (#28336960)
The APL/J/BQN family of array languages, or Prolog & other Horn clause languages. Both will change your idea of what’s expressible in a programming language.
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Re:Weird Languages by account-5 on Saturday August 28, 2021 @09:46AM (#28338003)
I'm not a programmer/developer by trade but I do like writing scripts to make my job easier.

I'm looking into APL and Lisp type languages basically to expand my mind as up to now I've really only being using "traditional" type languages.

It's like starting from scratch again.

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Re:Weird Languages by mst on Saturday August 28, 2021 @07:15PM (#28342412)
That's true for everybody, I think.

I find "thinking in lisp, then writing the program out in X" where X is whatever 'mundane' language seems most suitable to the task is often a very effective technique.

Array languages I've tried to learn repeatedly over the years and always ended up bouncing off, so have no opinion there except "personal aha moment not yet reached".

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