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riffraffyesterday at 6:32 AM1 replyview on HN

Indeed! I got to about 20 with A-B-C but it somehow became harder after those. The multitude of C-something is obvious but I didn't realize there's so many A* languages (apl, ada, agda, alice, algol, applescript, apex, ampl, assembly..)


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cestithyesterday at 2:10 PM

Then there’s the actual language ABC. It’s in the Basic family and has whitespace indentation for structuring flow. It directly influenced Python.

You could start your list alphabetically with A, A+, and A++. A is derived from APL. A+ is a newer take on A. A++ is unrelated. https://a-plus-plus-devs.github.io/aplusplus/guide/getting-s...