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Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by dragonwriter on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:01PM (#29675933)
They aren't consistently open source or programming languages (only categories “pl” and “esolang” seem to be programming languages.)

It's a list of...things.

Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by mypalmike on Friday December 24, 2021 @02:26PM (#29676899)
Even among "pl", even a quick sampling shows that these aren't necessarily correctly categorized. For instance, "advice-taker" according to the site is "an actively used programming language created in 1958". But Wikipedia, which I would take to be more credible in this context, says it "was a hypothetical computer program" and explains the philosophical point put forth by the idea. So it was not a language, not even a real program, and certainly not actively used.
Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by tyingq on Friday December 24, 2021 @07:06PM (#29679016)
"open source" only appears in the editorialized HN title.