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30 ish years is young for a programming language now?
by boothead 8y ago
30 ish years is young for a programming language now?
- paulgramcracker 8y agoHaskell is the youngest language that isn’t derivative.Monads for IO weren’t being seriously used until the late 90s. All the imperative C derivative languages are much older.
- Smaug123 8y agoA very young language that is (to my knowledge) not derivative of older ones unless you count Excel: https://www.luna-lang.org https://www.luna-lang.org It comes with C, JS, and Haskell interoperability, and it's implemented in Haskell, but the heart of the language is its visual representation. I have personally never seen anything like it before.
- lucas_membrane 8y agoPL1 is approximately 54, and it was put together to cover the application domains of 2 previous language successes, Fortran and COBOL, which still live. Fortran is more than twice 30 years old, BASIC approximately 53, RPG 59.