DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language [LWN.net]

DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Posted May 9, 2022 8:35 UTC (Mon) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language by rsidd
Parent article: DeVault: Announcing the Hare programming language

Or, going back further; by 1960 we had FORTRAN, LISP, ALGOL and COBOL. Why did we bother with C, FORTH, Smalltalk, BASIC, Prolog, SQL, ML, Pascal, Logo, Common Lisp, Ada, Objective-C, Haskell, Python, R, Ruby, Java, Delphi, PHP, JavaScript, C#, the ones you named, and more, when we had "enough" programming languages?