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What's your favorite OBSCURE (non-top-ten TIOBE) non-Delphi language?   Are there any Smalltalk, Lisp, Scheme, Racket, Go, Scala, Clojure, Rust, D, Haskell, Erlang, or Oberon fans here?    (If you want to answer C# or Python, you clearly didn't hear me about the Top 10 TIOBE part.)

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  1. Nick HodgesMarch 15, 2013 at 8:06 AM

    I'm going with BASH -- is that even a "language"?

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  2. Kenneth CochranMarch 15, 2013 at 8:12 AM

    I've always liked D's style.

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  3. Lars FosdalMarch 15, 2013 at 9:02 AM

    Smalltalk is awesome, although it is a very long time since I actually used it.  Lisp is pretty cool too - but after dealing with a die-hard Lisp fanatic over some time - I am less impressed by some of the actual production code that have been made with Lisp.

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  4. Martin WienoldMarch 15, 2013 at 9:22 AM

    I like Lua, it's 19th on TIOBE. Just look at its syntax, does it look familiar?
    And there is some nice magic too, look at the metatable version of the good old 99-bottles-of-beer song:
    http://www.99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-lua-1505.html

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  5. Warren PostmaMarch 15, 2013 at 12:48 PM

    BASH is fun because of the choice of "reversed string keywords". The end of a case statement is "esac", for instance. This syntax actually comes directly from ALGOL, which is one of the languages that provided many ideas about type-definition and orthogonal type systems, that influenced Niklaus Wirth who nevertheless disliked ALGOL's overall syntax, and this motivated him to create Pascal.  So you could say, Algol is the itchy bit of sand that created the pearl Pascal. :-)

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  6. Kevin McCoyMarch 15, 2013 at 12:59 PM

    About 20 years ago I developed and sold a bunch of LISP macros for Autocad.  LISP of course stands for "Lost In Silly Parenthesis".  You actually can do useful stuff with LISP, especially on CAD systems.

    I tried APL on a Commodore PET/SuperPET  back in the day.  That language is just toooo weird.  APL Program code looks more like Klingon than English.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29

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  7. François PietteMarch 16, 2013 at 1:55 AM

    Very long time ago (maybe 25 years), I've done some useful work using LISP (For AutoCAD as Kevin McCoy) and Prolog (For some "expert" system).

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  8. Jennifer-Ashley KuiperMarch 16, 2013 at 4:07 AM

    My all time favorit: C+- (C more or less)

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  9. Warren PostmaMarch 16, 2013 at 9:49 AM

    I think that's on the TOP TEN, Jennifer. :-)

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  10. Jennifer-Ashley KuiperMarch 17, 2013 at 1:42 AM

    If it is not, it should be.

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  11. Warren PostmaMarch 17, 2013 at 7:37 AM

    If you have never seen the list, it's here:

    http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html

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  12. Martin WienoldMarch 17, 2013 at 7:38 AM

    Warren Postma I think Jennifer-Ashley Kuiper is talking about C+- (http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/c+-.html) and not just C

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  13. Warren PostmaMarch 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM

    Well that wins the award for the first language I have seen that is so obscure that you can't even google it by name.  Subject oriented programming.  Even better than LOLCODE.

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  14. Jennifer-Ashley KuiperMarch 17, 2013 at 8:10 AM

    Indeed: http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/c+-.html

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