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The Programming Languages Zoo is a collection of small, educational programming languages designed to demonstrate diverse concepts in language design and implementation. It offers fully functioning miniature languages covering various paradigms, type systems, and evaluation strategies for learners and language designers.

Why it matters: It provides hands-on examples for understanding complex programming language features and implementation techniques in a manageable format.

The big picture: The project covers functional, logic, procedural, and object-oriented paradigms with interpreters, compilers, and type systems under one umbrella.

The other side: The languages are intentionally simple and not meant for production use but rather for study and experimentation.

Commenters say: Users wonder if a single language can support all features simultaneously and discuss the complexity and size challenges involved.