The simplest functional programming language?

Question

I am searging for the simplest functional programming language. This language must be pure functional language. Simplicity criteria is amount of language constructs. It could be good if this language can support macroprogramming. This language should be able to code anything like other languages like C# and others.

Pay attention that this is must be really and PURE functional language. Like Hasskell but simpler.

Answer 1

python

http://www.python.org/doc/Intros.html

Answer 2

First of all, it's important for you to understand that the language in itself does not determine the complexity of the task. Of course some languages like C or assembler are thougher for most people to understand but the approach is always the same no matter the language you use.

What's important is for you to understand the basics of programming to be able to express what you want to do in computer terms.

In the past, companies have often tried to create languages which could be used by mostly everyone, that's how COBOL was created. Of course, even though the language is very close to plain simple English, only programmers were able to do anything good with it. It was a fiasco since it's intended simplicity actually gave more trouble to programmers trying to do complex things.

The simpler the language, the more it is limited!

Answer 3

It has been proved (although I can't find the web page again) that a computer can be designed with only ONE executable instruction at the assembler level, and it can then be programmed to do everything that any other computer instruction set could do. So that's definitely the "simplest" language, in one sense of the word at any rate.

Answer 4

According to the link below the choice is from the following languages:- Erlang, R, Mathematica, J and K.

I have no knowledge of any of these languages so I will leave it to you to find the simplest.

Answer 5

Why dont you use PHP? i think php is good. But decision is yours.

Answer 6

try HTML