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Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by kortex on Friday December 24, 2021 @02:17PM (#29676791)
I like how comprehensive this is. Some of these are super obscure, including some systems that seem to only be referenced in a scholastic paper.

I don't like how disorganized/mis-characterized this is. As others have pointed out, there is little mention of open source (have to go into the language page for that), and these aren't all programming languages. Seems like it started as such and then scope crept to include...formal languages? What is CSV even?

Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome that there is some abstraction in which Arezzo notation, matplotlib, CSV, and a bunch of esolangs are in the same category. But saying it could benefit from focus is an understatement.

The website, for being as sparse and web 1.0 as it is, takes a long time to first interactive scroll on mobile.

I think both problems could be solved, or mitigated, by breaking it into separate lists. Programming languages, libraries, markup languages, encoding formats, and "misc".

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Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by netizen-936824 on Friday December 24, 2021 @03:22PM (#29677365)
Can you really call a list comprehensive if it contains a ton of incorrect entries?

Just because someone talks a lot doesn't mean they know a lot, just like a long list isn't necessarily comprehensive just because it's long

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Re:List of 4,248 open source programming languages by kortex on Saturday December 25, 2021 @12:27PM (#29684991)
Comprehensive is not the same thing as accuracy.

I am just remarking that it has a lot of entries that you would not necessarily see elsewhere.

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