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There are two types of modern programming languages: those that look like C and those that look like Python.

• lkschubert8 4y ago
  + Those that look like ruby?
  • quickthrower2 4y ago
    Ruby looks like Python
    • d3ckard 4y ago
      It does not. No language with statements is like Ruby.
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      If anything, Ruby looks like Smalltalk without image file.
• sph 4y ago
  (concat '(c python) lisp-derived-languages) Also add Forth, Prolog, Brainfuck, Haskell/ML and Ruby. There's more to programming than you think.
  • varjag 4y ago
    I meant the syntax of novelty languages we have on HN regularly. And Ruby is Python-mimicry open your eyes.
    • segfaltnh 4y ago
      Didn't ruby and python both get created in the same year...?
      • cristoperb 4y ago
        Python was released earlier than Ruby (1991 vs 1993/1995), and Matz was familiar with it. But Ruby is clearly an attempt at an object-oriented Perl rather than a Python mimic: > I knew Python then. But I didn't like it, because I didn't think it was a true object-oriented language---OO features appeared to be add-on to the language. As a language manic and OO fan for 15 years, I really wanted a genuine object-oriented, easy-to-use scripting language. I looked for, but couldn't find one. https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html https://ruby-doc.org/docs/ruby-doc-bundle/FAQ/FAQ.html
        • chaxor 4y ago
          "OO features appeared to be add-on" No one tell them about the horrors of R. That's a 'yikes' of a language that no one should ever use.
  • tmtvl 4y ago
    Don't forget APL.
    • varjag 4y ago
      Right, because we see so many APL derived languages lately.
• pjmlp 4y ago
  You forgot those that look like Pascal and those that look like ML.
  • varjag 4y ago
    Hadn't seen := in a new language in a while tho.
    • poo-yie 4y ago
      go has it. it's not brand new, but relatively new.
    • pjmlp 4y ago
      Walrus operator in Python.
      • qwertfisch 3y ago
        Except that the walrus operator “:=” is an assignment expression, whereas in Pascal it is an assignment statement, like “=” in many languages. In Pascal, the boolean comparison operator is “=” instead of “==” (in the same many languages). And there is C where the assignment expression is just “=”, there is no assignment statement, and many forgotten double equals led to bugs …
• dw-im-here 4y ago
  You mean there are two modern programming languages which you know
  • varjag 4y ago
    Read what I say, not what you mean.
• dym_sh 4y ago
  someone discovered whitespace significance but doesnt know how to call it yet