Lesser known programming languages

[Alain De Vos]

ada on linux is interesting.
It is used on the international space station.
Altough the specification is big , 800 pages as opposed to scheme 50 pages.

 

[hruodr]

prolog.

It seems, it remains only one prolog pkg (gprolog).

 

[Charlie_]

lang/swipl

SWI-Prolog - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

lang/yap

YAP (Prolog) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[shahinco]

Basic

 

[hruodr]

lang/swipl

pkg search swipl gives no result. Perhaps the typical compiling problems.

 

[chrbr]

It should be

> pkg search sw|grep -i prolog
swi-pl-9.2.2                   Edinburgh-style Prolog compiler

 

[Gyros Komplett]

As a teenager, back in the late 80s, I fiddled around with 6502 assembler on my C64.

 

[Alain De Vos]

sys 64738
lda

 

[Gyros Komplett]

"lda" needs an argument
...and that's almost everything I still remember.

 

[cy@]

APL?

Not anymore. Last time I wrote anything in APL was over 50 years ago. I was still in high school using my computer (IBM mainframe) account at the university. I had to use an IBM 2741 terminal with an APL type ball.

 

[Charlie_]

APL?

lang/gnu-apl

 

[Grzegorz Wiktorowski]

It may not be a programming language, but in the 90s FoxPro was often used at university...

Was it a variety of dBase III with its' own dialect?

 

[USerID]

yes, dBase III+ (1986).

 

[softweyr]

I used to be the port maintainer for Snobol, because one of the vikings wanted it. Tons of Fortran in the 80s and early 90s, none but trivial programs since then.
Every time I try Go or Rust, it's for some simple web project, and I realize yet again that Python and Flask are the perfect tools for this project, so I dump them.

 

[Alain De Vos]

I used to be the port maintainer for Snobol, because one of the vikings wanted it. Tons of Fortran in the 80s and early 90s, none but trivial programs since then.
Every time I try Go or Rust, it's for some simple web project, and I realize yet again that Python and Flask are the perfect tools for this project, so I dump them.

Kemal - Guide

Fast, Effective, Simple web framework for Crystal

kemalcr.com

 

[bgavin]

I write in Delphi, which can port over to Lazarus / Free Pascal for multiple platforms.
I also write extensive data based apps in Excel with the underlying VBA engine.
VBA is surprisingly capable of supporting structured code.

Question: is FreeBSD a suitable platform for developing USB apps?

Windows offers the Device Driver Kit, which is fabulously complicated and fat.
I'm curious if FBSD would be ideal for console based apps for custom USB device control.

For example: a FBSD console app that monitors an external USB digital thermometer, then activates an external USB controller to switch a fan.

 

[softweyr]

Kemal - Guide

Fast, Effective, Simple web framework for Crystal

kemalcr.com

Ah, so everything we hate about Ruby, with added hatred for non-dynamic compiled languages?
I get that some web apps are big, complex things and need type safety and run-time speed and things like that, but when you're creating a web app that:

• Processes tens to maybe hundreds of transactions per day
• Has tens of logged-in users at a time
• Stores perhaps low thousands of records in a database
  • That will likely be sqlite
  • Could be off-box on a free hosting site

It becomes really hard to see any actual advantage to "more powerful" frameworks or languages.

 

[maxwell79]

I work in research and I use Lisp much to the puzzlement of my colleagues.
It's a great language for rapid prototyping in small teams.

 

[kent_dorfman766]

Occasional VHDL, but I strenuously try to sucker someone else into doing it for me. LOL

 

[Deleted member 81054]

Assembly languages for many microprocessors that are made of unobtanium: i4004, 8x300, 2A03, 16032, J11, 99105, Z380, 29K, etc. (actually, most are probably still available in some marketplaces but few folks have likely worked with them)

 

[Jim L.]

Pascal ?

My first Open Source experience was with UCSD Pascal on a Northwest Microcomputer 85/P. Good times. Always wished I had an LSI-11 though. Later I did some fairly large projects in Fitted Software Tools' Modula-2 environment, back when Modula-2 was still fun.

I always wanted to use SNOBOL, because it had interesting pattern-matching facilities. It was possible to get a 9-track tape for the mainframe for just the cost of copying. Unfortunately, I never had enough time on the mainframe I was working on to play with it.

Catspaw SNOBOL4+/SPITBOL was handy for a lot of Q&D "glue" projects where I learned about associative arrays, etc. I still use Phil Budne's snobol4 package a fair bit on FreeBSD. Looks like LaTeX folk still do, also.