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Comment by shiroiushi

6 months ago

Instead of FORTRAN, someone should try writing a Minecraft server in something like ALGOL or FORTH.

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superdisk  6 months ago

Algol 68 actually isn't too bad of a language to work with, and there's a modern interpreter easily available. Unfortunately it lacks all support for reading and manipulating binary data so I think a Minecraft server would be nearly impossible.

quuxplusone  6 months ago

Or APL.

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