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Fun challenge. Unlike the author, I have nothing really to add.

I just wanted to say that "I did NOT write it with ..."



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..)


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...


C--! I forgot that one. The ILR for the first versions of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler




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