[SIM-2015410]

Hi HF, i wanted to make a thread for all those languages that no one has ever heard of, and yet are actually great languages!

Here are some of my favorite unknown languages, check these out:
- Haskell - http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell
- Scala - http://www.scala-lang.org/
- D - http://dlang.org/
- Haxe - http://haxe.org/
- Clojure - http://clojure.org/
- Ioke - https://ioke.org/
- Nemerle - http://nemerle.org/About

And then some more amusing languages:
- LOLcode - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
And a great wiki about all the esoteric languages, some of these are truly amazing. Like CHEF. Chef is amazing 🙂 http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page

Hope you find this thread interesting and/or informative. Feel free to post any other languages you think deserve a mention :)

[Eight]

D has recently started getting some publicity thanks to the 2013 DConf. Facebook's also been push it lately. I really do hope it takes off.

[g4143]

You forgot an important family of languages. The ML family of languages of which Ocaml and F# are part of.

[~Dec]

DogeScript is rather amusing.

A basic HTTP server:

PHP Code


<?php 
so http

plz http.createServer with much request response
  plz response.writeHead with 200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/plain' }
  plz response.end with 'Very Hello, Much World'
wow&
.plz listen with 3000 


http://zachbruggeman.me/dogescript/

[Eight]

^ thanks doge
Seriously though, I can't believe someone actually took the time to make it.

[~Dec]

More importantly, the open source static site / SPA framework I help work on, Roots, supports it (In the latest pre-release). :D

[SIM-2015410]

Oh yes, thanks g4143. F# is a really useful language, I often use it whenever I don't want to use c#, when my projects get to complicated.

[ForeignPolicy]

it still amazes me these languages exist and yet no one, including myself, have heard of them.

[SIM-2015410]

it still amazes me these languages exist and yet no one, including myself, have heard of them.

Thats why i made this thread :) you should check them out...lots of great languages are hardly known about. I urge you to check out haskell. the tutorial is called "Learn you a haskell for great good" - but its in perfect english haha. its a purely functional language, and actually really cool.

[NotSoDeadHead]

These languages really aren't that unknown, the users of this forum are not exactly a prime demographic. :P
Hopefully this thread will inspire at least one person to look at a decent language...

[g4143]

it still amazes me these languages exist and yet no one, including myself, have heard of them.

These languages are present and used by some of the best coders in the world. I know for a fact that Ocaml and now F# are the preferred tools for certain software solutions.

[SIM-2015410]

These languages really aren't that unknown, the users of this forum are not exactly a prime demographic. :P
Hopefully this thread will inspire at least one person to look at a decent language...

Exactly why i made this thread 👍

[Anti]

I have only heard of Haskell, Scala, and D.