There are some languages that don't need mass appeal to be loved. Elixir, Lua, Zig, Clojure, Julia, and Rust prove that point ...

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Overview: Functional programming prevents unintended data changes, reducing errors in large systems.Pure functions improve testing accuracy because outputs depe ...

Find out quite how strange programming can get, from languages full of brackets, to those that interpret color or even code you cannot see at all! Lisp, in which everything is a list Lisp is an old ...