MinimalisticProgrammingLanguages

What are several examples of minimalistic programming languages?

Oct 19, 2015 https://www.quora.com//What-are-several-examples-of-minimalistic-programming-languages/answer/Phil-Jones-He-Him

Lisp is the classic. Built on one principle, function application. And a minimal syntax.

Smalltalk, as Ian Atkin says. (I disagree with him on Python though)

IO is a new (to me) language that seems to take Smalltalk\'s "everything is a message" approach and subtracts classes (it\'s like Self and Javascript). So it might be the most minimal example of Object-Message systems.

Forth is pretty minimal.

Brainfuck.

I'm sure there'll be something based on SKI combinator calculus too.

Is there a simplified syntax for Lisp?

Jul 10, 2019 https://www.quora.com//Is-there-a-simplified-syntax-for-Lisp/answer/Phil-Jones-He-Him

Lisp has the simplest syntax of pretty much any mainstream programming language today.

People describe it as not having a syntax at all. Though that's an exaggeration. It's hard to imagine a language with less syntax. Maybe Smalltalk and Forth come close. But certainly they aren't simpler than Lisp.

Update : Richard Kenneth Eng suggests that Forth is actually simpler syntactically than Lisp. Which on further consideration is probably true. So maybe Forth beats Lisp in the minimal syntax.