Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language?

Re:Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language? by thiht on Monday September 12, 2022 @08:54AM (#32809416)

> - No user-defined types. A few good types is better.

> - No higher-order functions.

I'm not creative enough to understand how you can do anything useful without these 2. Can you clarify?

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Re:Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language? by alexmingoia on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:02AM (#32811393)

Databases are useful. Look at Datalog and SQL and you're looking at a language that does very useful stuff without user-defined types, higher-order functions, recursion, etc.

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Re:Ask HN: What would be your “perfect” programming language? by kaz-inc on Monday September 12, 2022 @11:16AM (#32811625)

APL, I guess?

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