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A language that gets widespread usage in projects other than academic.

• sspiff 10y ago
  Another definition I could see working: a language that is used in projects bigger/more complicated that its own compiler or standard library.
  • Narann 10y ago
    Hahaha! You got me!
• mrdrozdov 10y ago
  What's an example of a "not real language" then? I'm feeling a little hard pressed to find an academic language that is not used in industry. I always thought of Lua as academic because I associated it with Torch, but Facebook and Google are both heavy users of Torch, besides Lua has been heavily used in gaming as an embedded scripting language outside of machine learning applications.
  • llull 10y ago
    Idris. Really interesting language exploring dependent types for practical programming, but not yet production ready.
  • cyphar 10y ago
    Neovim is also working on replacing VimL with Lua (by translating VimL to Lua). I think that'll be pretty cool (you will be able to match the emacs people on having all of your configuration in a full programming language).
• DonHopkins 10y ago
  Lua is widely used and well respected in the game industry (WOW for example [1]), for its efficiency and embeddability. [1] http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Lua http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Lua