So it's basically an S-expression-syntax wrapper around Terra? So cool.

I really wish more languages picked up S-expressions, because they're easy to machine-generate. I can't count the number of times I've been annoyed at my otherwise favourite languages for not being able to do that.

Looks promising.

But it seems it's still at a very early stage and lacks any kind of documentation so I'm not sure where/how to start hacking.

The game that it's developed for (with?) is insanely original and the author totally got my attention with it: http://www.duangle.com/nowhere

Looks like None is a consequence of the author learning LISP some time ago and developing a new editor for the game - Conspire. It's described in this blog post: http://blog.duangle.com/2015/01/conspire-programming-environ...

Funny thing is that after I learned lisp (clojure in my case) I came up with a very similar prototype for an editor, but never went further than the prototype, given the complexity of getting it done properly..

Anyway, I wish duangle lots of luck with the game, None and Conspire, all these projects are very original and ambitious, my only concern is that author is overstretching himself.

Is there a way I could help ?

And it looks like it is being used to create this, http://www.duangle.com/nowhere - A Psychedelic RPG

It's worth mentioning that Terra (http://terralang.org/) is pretty cool on its own terms.

This is a really neat idea. I'd love to use this but unfortunately there is no documentation and a total of 2 example programs so I have no clue how to actually use it.

My normal approach in this situation is to read the source but the source is completely unreadable since it is meta-bootstrapped with weird internal stuff partly in lua, partly in terra and largely using odd meta-macros in None itself.

I'm having trouble thinking of a less googleable name for a programming language.

Inaccessibility is sweeping across the Internet but I honestly never thought I would see an introduction to a programming language, written by the creator of that language, include an example in an image. If it's "short", it's short enough to include in text. If it's long, it's short enough to include in text. I know I can (probably) view the example in the source repo, but your introduction is the place to communicate why your idea is a good one. If my screen reader can't read the example, I'm done.

/rant

I really couldn't go past the title "The Best Programming Language is None". Either the wiki isn't taking the language seriously or someone is really over confident. Who knows, it may be, but stating that when almost no one uses the language is certainly not the way to go.

I think that award goes to "S" [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_(programming_language)]. If you add a "-lang" suffix (the traditional fix for a poorly-named programming language), you just end up with "slang".

The SQL-style query language called "ENGLISH" used for the Pick operating system by Microdata Corporation.

One conjecture I read was the name was chosen so sales could say "your users can query the database in ENGLISH".

How about C?

Or a language with meta characters in it, such as C++?

Obviously, these two languages are popular now so they are the first hit but you can bet in the early days of the web, it was a bit different.

I understand your point, though, whenever I create a project, I do my best to pick a unique name for that very reason, but overall, history tends to indicate that such decision will not prevent a good product from becoming popular.

Not altogether unsurprisingly, for me "none programming language" works currently on Google. And while I may be jumping to conclusions, I suspect that the intersection of programmers to whom none appeals and those who think "programming language" is just too much to type into the Google it box to gain access to a tool is probably pretty low. In my experience, there are places where unique search terms really matter and those where it doesn't and developer tools tend to fall into the latter.

There are a lot of them, e.g: B, C, D, E, R, Go, Io.

I did a college project in Icon. You can find all the major docs and manuals by Googling "icon programming language," but any more specific Google queries tend to return results for things like changing the favicon of a website or changing a desktop icon in Windows.

It is, incidentally, a pretty neat programming language. It seems like it had a big influence on Python.

I've always had troubles with Factor. The suggestion is convert searches to "factorlang" but this has middling success.

Swift: http://swift-lang.org/main/

Hint: Not Apple's.

Not programming languages, but Apple's "Pages" and "Numbers" are pretty lousy when it comes to googleablility.