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K, J, Lisp, Prolog . . . I'm beginning to be worried about my own fascination with uncommon languages. Is there a support group available? If the three books
by tom_b 16y ago
K, J, Lisp, Prolog . . . I'm beginning to be worried about my own fascination with uncommon languages.
Is there a support group available? If the three books you read when the kids are asleep are The Reasoned Schemer, The Art of Prolog, and On Lisp, are you now officially beyond help on the language geek scale? I used to be a somewhat productive programmer. These days I think more about making sure I've picked the right language for the problem . . .
- silentbicycle 16y agoI spent a while chasing the weirdest languages I could find (relative to everything else I knew at the time), but feel like I've gotten to the point of diminishing returns. I've been studying types and semantics instead. I do most of my actual programming in Lua + C and an in-house language. I really like Erlang (but haven't worked on the right kind of projects lately), and I also prototype stuff in Prolog. I would love to have a more modern dialect of Prolog, designed primarily for embedded use as a C library (much like Lua, and ideally with a similar C FFI). It's a cool language, but it's also really strongly skewed towards certain problem domains. Lua has taught me that when a language can delegate its weak points to a symbiotic language, it can stay really small and focused on its strengths.