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Common Lisp looks strange when you come from C, but it’s actually pretty easy to grok. Racket (and other Schemes) do iteration via tail-recursion, which seems strange, but is fairly simple. Macros are easier to work with than the C pre-processor. Only Go has channels and goroutines, but once you know what they do and how they interact, it’s fairly simple to just use them. It’s not that easy to do anything non-trivial in Brainfuck, but the language is so simple, it’s fairly straight-forward to work it out.

…and along comes The J Programming Language.

        i.10
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

…fair enough…

        1+i.10
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

…nice…

        +/ 1+i.10
    55
        */ 1+i.10
    3628800

…yep…

        +/\ i.10
    0 1 3 6 10 15 21 28 36 45
        +/\. i.10
    45 45 44 42 39 35 30 24 17 9
        */\ i.10
    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
        */\. i.10
    0 362880 362880 181440 60480 15120 3024 504 72 9

…all right…

        4 (~: # ]) 1 2 3 4 5 6
    1 2 3 5 6

I’m sorry?

        (-&2 +&$: -&1)^:(1&<)M.">:i.10 .NB I didn't write that one
    0 1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34

What the…?

What a great language! I don’t understand a thing! Love it!