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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by emmelaich on Friday December 09, 2022 @07:59PM (#33928594)
Maintainer of the interesting language pyret.
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by skrishnamurthi on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:16PM (#33929499)
To be accurate, Pyret is a collaboration (primarily) with Joe Politz and Ben Lerner and they deserve most of the credit for it.
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by JonChesterfield on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:51PM (#33928963)
Interesting in what sense? Language outline at https://www.pyret.org/docs/latest/A_Tour_of_Pyret.html
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by zem on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:35PM (#33929622)
one of the best thought-out syntaxes i have seen in a programming language, for one.
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by jrvarela56 on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:22PM (#33929815)
Ok maybe I'm a weird type, but I got really excited when the first thing they teach you is how to write a test/assertion.
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Re:Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation, 3r... by canadianfella on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:05AM (#33930350)
I thought you were talking about this one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...

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