Ask HN: Would prog. language look like if that was designed by no-programmer

• principia

  10 198 2.7 TeX

  The Principia Rewrite (by LogicalAtomist)

Principia

A work from the early 20th century, mathematics, logic.

I think some expert called Bertrand Russell's and A.N. Whitehead's "Principia Mathematica" initiative a "bizarre" piece of work, when seen from the perspective of a programming language designer.

I can't make a qualified statement about this, as I am neither a mathematician nor a language designer. And I cannot find the exact quote on the internet, sorry. Just saying.

In code? See for yourself :

https://www.principiarewrite.com/

• inform7-ide

  35 97 7.7 C

  A design system for interactive fiction based on natural language.

Perhaps like Inform:

http://inform7.com/

Although I suppose in the age of GPT-3 that will probably take over.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• xlispstat

  2 16 10.0 C

  Luke Tierney's Xlispstat statistical environment

I was a huge fan of xlispstat in the 1990s (which I've archived on Github at (https://github.com/jhbadger/xlispstat), but the simple fact is that the majority of the statistics community just didn't like Lisp-like languages, and not only xlispstat, but newer projects like Incanter (statistics for Clojure) have pretty much failed as well. R meets its need far better than a Scheme library that nobody would have used. It's yet another example of "worse is better".

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