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Ask HN: Which symbolic programming languages do exist?
While there were a few discussions about non-English programming languages here on HN, what about programming languages that rely on symbols instead of natural languages? It appears that APL is one such language, are there any others?
- jjgreen 3y agoThere are, but you might not like them ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
- rzzzwilson 3y agoThe esoteric languages page [0] has a few, all oddball, but piet, whitespace and befunge stand out. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language
- anyfoo 3y agoBQN, although that feels like cheating, because it's very much APL-derived: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/ https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/