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Ask HN: What are the best programming languages?

Here's the twist. I don't care about pragmatic considerations.

- I don't care about the learning curve

- I don't care about the documentation

- I don't care about performance

- I don't care about licensing cost or restriction

- I don't care about the tooling

- I don't care about the community

- I don't care about the support

- I don't care whether anyone uses it

- I don't care whether the language uses text, voice input, graphical interface, AI, brain interface, etc.

- I don't care whether a compiler exists or not

I am looking for a language with uncompromised elegance. I am looking for the language people would use if magic existed. I am looking for a glimpse of what programming could look like in 10, 20, 50 years.

Go wild.

10 points miguelrochefort 10 years ago 27 comments

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