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Clojure is not bad, sadly all “new” programming languages now just try to reinvent Lisp or fortran its a bit disappointing.
by munchausen007 6y ago
Clojure is not bad, sadly all “new” programming languages now just try to reinvent Lisp or fortran its a bit disappointing.
- augustk 6y agoThis comment section is not complete without mentioning Oberon, designed by maestro prof. Niklaus Wirth. First appearing in 1988 it may not be a new language but it has gone through several simplifications and the latest revision is from 2016. The programming language Go borrowed quite a few ideas from it although Oberon is simpler and has an orthogonal feature set. How many programming languages are defined in 16 A4 pages including examples? https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
- timbit42 6y agoScheme's specification is smaller than that.
- blandflakes 6y agoWe also have attempts to reinvent ML, more recently!