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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by cperciva on Saturday June 30, 2007 @02:14AM (#31704)
Off the top of my head: Ada, BCPL, C, Delphi, Erlang, Fortran, Godel, Haskell, Intercal, Java, K (if hypothetical languages count? This is a project by some FreeBSD developers to produce a more powerful version of C designed for kernel programming), Logo, Maple, N??, Occam, Pascal, Q??, Ratfor, Sed, TeX, U??, Visual Basic (if this counts as a language in itself rather than as a version of BASIC), Whitespace, X??, Yorick, Z??

I guess that's 19-21 out of 26, depending on the exact rules.

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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by philh on Saturday June 30, 2007 @03:28AM (#31711)
Newlisp, if we're allowed different lisp dialects.

(If not, new challenge: lisp dialect for every letter of the alphabet.)

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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by fallintothis on Saturday June 30, 2007 @08:39PM (#31808)
Paul Graham has most of the work done for me: http://paulgraham.com/lisps.html He has A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, V, and X - though I certainly can name some dialects of the same letters which are not listed. Not going to really bother on that one, though.

This leaves H, Q, R, T, U, W, Y, and Z, of which I can supply Qi ( http://www.lambdassociates.org/ ) and T ( http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/ ). Bringing the list of unnamed (for me) to:

H, R, U, W, Y, Z.

That's the best I can do. Anyone else?

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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by emmett on Saturday June 30, 2007 @02:34AM (#31708)
We couldn't figure out N, U, or Z either.

Q is easy - QuickBasic, under the same theory as V.

Whitespace - good call! We couldn't think of a W.

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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by ashu on Saturday June 30, 2007 @01:24PM (#31748)
http://www.nickle.org/

Keith Packard has been working on it for a while...

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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by davidw on Saturday June 30, 2007 @03:14AM (#31709)
UML
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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by jey on Saturday June 30, 2007 @10:04AM (#31732)
That's a design language, not a programming language, right? Or is UML actually Turing-complete?
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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by davidw on Saturday June 30, 2007 @11:53AM (#31741)
No idea, just thought I'd toss it out there.
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Re:Nerd quiz - Can you name a programming language for every... by euccastro on Wednesday July 18, 2007 @10:12PM (#35147)
Go management!
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