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by abrookewood 997 days ago
It looks unlike anything I've ever seen before. Are there any other languages that use glyphs so heavily? What was your inspiration? I have no idea how I would use this language, but it's put a smile on my face. Amazing work.
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> Are there any other languages that use glyphs so heavily?

APL (the first, invented in the 1960s): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

BQN (a modern APL, looks like an inspiration for Uiua though I don't know): https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/

Too many smaller esoteric languages to count.

> Are there any other languages that use glyphs so heavily?

This is the case with most of the languages in the APL family, but especially APL [1] and BQN [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

[2] https://mlochbaum.github.io/BQN/index.html

Love the `?` "wut" for conditionals :)

I shall call all instances of ternary conditionals "wut" statements now.