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Ask HN: Which symbolic programming languages do exist?

5 points·maksimur··3 comments

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?

The 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

BQN, although that feels like cheating, because it's very much APL-derived: https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

There are, but you might not like them ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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