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2021-05-27 20:00:04

I recently compiled a list of Perlis Languages that were meant to illustrate varying paradigms not typically found in mainstream programming languages. Those languages were meant to stretch your mind and are not necessarily representative of the state of the art in language design and implementation. In this post I will provide a list of fairly new languages (let’s say 5 years with a little flex) that display1 interesting features and display higher-order thinking in the way that they tend toward an evolution of past learnings in programming language thinking. Not all of these languages enjoy active development, but the more important point is that they represent in some way “new language thinking”. Remember that this goal does not necessarily mean “innovative”.

Unlike my Perlis post, I have not fully explored all of the languages below, so caveat emptor. Please correct me if I misrepresent something. No meaning behind the ordering implied.