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Perl is a family high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. The project is open-source and has been in community development for over 30 years. Perl is a highly capable language and feature rich language with over 25,000 community created extensions.

PHP is a popular free and open-source general-purpose scripting language. The language was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1994. PHP is fast, flexible and pragmatic and is especially suited to web development. It is utilised by individual developers and large corporations like facebook, where it powers backend services.

Raku is a programming language that intends to carry forward the ideals of the Perl community. The project was formerly known as Perl 6 and was renamed to Raku as of October 2019. Raku introduces many modern concepts to the historical language while keeping Perl compatibility mode as a part of the specification. Raku is developed by an enthusiastic community of volunteers, that strive to push the language forward.

Eiffel is an free and open-source object-oriented programming language designed at Eiffel Software by Bertrand Meyer back in 1985. Bertrand Meyer had one goal in mind when he created the language, the goal of increasing the reliability of commercial software development. Today Eiffel comes with its own IDE (Integrated Development Environment) called EiffelStudio, the software can be used to write Eiffel code in a single user interface that includes a compiler, interpreter, debugger, browser, metrics tool, profiler, diagram and code inspector.

WebAssembly or WASM for short, is an open standard and binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. WebAssembly run in all modern web browsers at near-native performance and provides languages such as C/C++ and Rust with a compilation target so that they can run on the web. The language is designed to run alongside JavaScript, allowing both to work together, while simultaneously redefining the web's capability.

A family of programming languages dating back to 1958. Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today.

A Microsoft developed domain-specific programming language used for expressing quantum algorithms. Q# share similar structures and elements with popular languages like Python, C#, and F#. The language comes bundled with the QDK (Quantum Development Kit) and quantum simulators, while also being extensible with Q# libraries. With Q# developers can build quantum algorithms used for quantum computing with a basic procedural model for writing programs with loops, if/then statements, and common data types.

With Ceylon developers can write software that runs on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine) or complied to JavaScript. Ceylon is an object-oriented, strongly statically typed programming language with an emphasis on immutability. The language was first created by Red Hat in 2011, but is now maintained by the Eclipse Foundation.

Racket started its life as a Scheme implementation, but has now grown into a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and the world's first ecosystem for language-oriented programming. Racket designed to be a platform for programming language design and implementation where developers can create their own dream language.

Rebol is a lightweight, cross-platform data exchange programming language. The language is designed by Carl Sassenrath and is suited for network communications and distributed computing. Rebol's unique simplistic design makes it a productive language that is loved by its users.

A free and open object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code. Vala uses the GObject system and is syntactically similar to C# while introducing unique features like functions, signals, properties, generics, assisted memory management, exception handling, type inference, and foreach statements. Vala makes it simple to target the GNOME stack and is also used for writing applications to the operating system elementary OS.

Groovy, or Apache Groovy is a object-oriented programming language for the JVM (Java Virtual Machine). Groovy share many similarities with programming languages like Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk while providing a syntax compatible with Java.