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by thiht 1374 days ago
> - No user-defined types. A few good types is better.

> - No higher-order functions.

I'm not creative enough to understand how you can do anything useful without these 2. Can you clarify?

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Databases are useful. Look at Datalog and SQL and you're looking at a language that does very useful stuff without user-defined types, higher-order functions, recursion, etc.
APL, I guess?