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I saw this interesting article Ghosts in the Machine: 12 Coding Languages That Never Took Off on softwaredeveloper.com via digg programming and thought you might also find it interesting.

The programming languages that many people have not heard of are:

1. ALGOL 68: ALGOrithmic Language 1968
2. brainfuck
3. Befunge
4. REBOL: Relative Expression Based Object Language
5. ColdFusion (I think this is going to get people discussing.)
6. Java2k
7. INTERCAL
8. VRML: Virtual Reality Modeling Language
9. SMIL: Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language
10. Haskell
11. Delphi
12. PowerBuilder

Read the full article to discover the background of those programming languages and why they don’t take off.

Side notes:

There are literally over 8,500 programming languages in existence..

Who would have thought? 8,500 is such a huge number.

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