Hacker News Reader

> I really wish the languages preserved their original culture and philosophy.

You mention a couple of lisps as being similar to this. I wonder if there is any more programming languages that could be considered complete? Forth? C? ASL?

View on HN

I think Lua is a good example. It has stayed simple and avoided change because of its position as an embedded language and strong leadership. Another good one would be Smalltalk.

Yeah, definitely Lua.

ANSI C and SML probably qualify, though I hope you don’t need utf-8

You probably won't write any useful and nontrivial piece of software in C today without using external libraries, so if you really need Unicode, you will probably use one one of Unicode libs - although basic operations like copying will work without these anyway.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com