Interesting Programming Languages

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This is to become a website about some interesting programming languages and the big ideas behind them. It’ll get a major update soon, so make sure to come by every now and again.

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In the meantime..

.. check out my talk Four Fascinating Programming Languages You’ve Probably Never Heard Of at BOBKonf 2026

• Slide Deck

.. visit my other websites

• Business Home Page
• Blog
• Awesome Event-Driven Architecture List

.. visit some of these other websites about programming languages:

• Reasons to Love the Field of Programming Languages
  
• 10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
  
• 20 most significant programming languages in history
  
• 2030: Programming Language Trends
  
• A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages 😀
  I've read this wonderful chronology by James Iry many times, and it still manages to make me laugh. A must read.
• Most Influential POPL Paper Award
  POPL is the "Principles of Programming Languages" conference. Each year an award is given to the talk from the conference 10 years ago that had the biggest influence on the field.
• Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer? 😀
  Can you tell a coder from a cannibal? A mathematician from a murderer?
• Great Works in Programming Languages
  Collected by Benjamin C. Pierce
• The Whole Code Catalog
  A catalog of "futuristic computational interfaces"
• Pixel's programming languages study page
  Comparison of languages, e.g. "syntax across languages"
• Wikipedia's "Computer Programming" Portal
  A nicely done portal to all computer programming related articles on Wikipedia.