D, AmbientTalk, and Perl

D Programming Language

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For system and application programming.

Large language.

Multi-paradigm: including functional, metal programming (assembler), the commonly used paradigms (OO, procedural), plus other paradigms

D can directly call any C function.

D matches C's ABI better that C++ does.

Functional programming = no mutual state.

A wickedly smart C++ meta-programming expert wrote the Generic paradigm of D.

AmbientTalk Programming Language

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Scripting for mobile platforms

OO, Functional

Concurrent, distributed

Reflective

JVM, Android

State of the Onion

Larry Wall (Creator of Perl)

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Painful for a non-Perl programmer...