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I’m interested in compilers, interpreters and languages.
What is the most interesting, but forgotten or unknown, language you know about? And more importantly, why?
I’m interested both in compiled, interpreted and VM languages, but not esoteric languages like Whitespace or BF.
Open source would be a plus, of course, since I plan to study and hopefully learn from it.
I love compilers and VMs, and I love Lua.
Lua is not as well supported as many other scripting languages, but from a mindset like yours I’m sure you will fall in love with Lua too. I mean it’s like lisp, (can do anything lisp can as far as I know), has lots of the main features from ADA, plus it’s got meta programming built right in, with functional programming and object oriented programming loose enough to make any type of domain language you might want. Besides the VM’s code is simple C which means you can easily dig right into it to appreciate even at that level.
(And it’s open-source MIT license)