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Re:The Future of Programming by jkarni on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @06:17PM (#6130463)
APL has its own codepage? I have to say, that's a better and simpler way of avoiding success at all costs than Haskell ever found.

Not that I dislike the idea -- on the contrary, I'm inclined to conclude from my excitement over this and Haskell that I dislike success...

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Re:The Future of Programming by astrobe_ on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @07:56PM (#6130948)
Well in the end it doesn't matter if your language is looking for popularity or not. What matters is what you can do with it. You think a language with weird symbols all around can't win? Just look at Pearl.

On a related note, if one plans to sell the Language of The Future Of Programming, I swear this thing will know the same fate as Planner, NLS, Sketchpad, Prolog, Smalltalk and whatnot if it cannot help me with the problems I have to solve just tomorrow.

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Re:The Future of Programming by keithpeter on Thursday August 01, 2013 @09:00AM (#6139910)
Try J. Or Kona (open source K). All ascii characters.
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Re:The Future of Programming by lifeisstillgood on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @06:52PM (#6130664)
Haskell has a rule - to avoid popularity at all costs
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Re:The Future of Programming by gnuvince on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @01:12AM (#6132036)
You should parse it as "avoid (popularity at all costs)" rather than "(avoid popularity) at all costs".
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Re:The Future of Programming by simonh on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:34PM (#6136653)
Well of course it does. Popularity is a side effect.
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