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APL, forth and prolog are routinely rediscovered over and over again. They are like a cat standing in the path of a door : refusing the mainstream and refusing obscurity.

Maybe lisp was in that club too but clojure made it mainstream again, by my horribly inaccurate, unscientific and probably wrong reckoning.



I love how Forth taught me to build the language up instead if the program down.


That's something I like about array languages too, and Lisp is similar from what I know of it. Essentially defining a DSL for the problem and then working with it.


Clojure is in a kind of "niche mainstream" position. The others are "just" niche, I guess




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