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LeCompteSftwareyesterday at 2:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Lots of us are having fun identifying our choice for missing family :)

One I might suggest is scripting languages, defined loosely by programming tools which dispatch high-level commands to act on data pipelines: sed, AWK, the sh family, Perl, PowerShell, Python and R as honorary members. In practice I might say SQL belongs here instead of under Prolog, but in theory of course SQL is like Prolog. Bourne shell might be the best representative, even if it's not the oldest.

AWK et al share characteristics from ALGOL and APL, but I feel they are very much their own thing. PowerShell is quite unique among modern languages.


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analog31yesterday at 3:56 PM

I'd add dataflow "languages" such as Excel and LabVIEW.