Perl has a history of this due to Larry Wall's background in linguistics. His Christian faith is also an influence. In Perl you can "bless" a reference to reify it into a class. The name Perl also comes from the bible apparently. Though you probably know this based on your username...
Fortunately Perl was reasonable. On the other side of the spectrum you have the impenetrable and pretentiously obnoxious Urbit[1]
Oh, hey, they have a glossary now. That's at least a nice affordance. Back when I last looked at Urbit you were expected to figure everything out like you were reading a cyberpunk novel.
...actually, now that I say it, "cyberpunk enthusiast" kinda resonates with the whole design of Urbit.
This is my first visit to Urbit... I feel like I stumbled into a parallel dimension. Currently transfixing me: The "Hoon syntax" page gives one-syllable pronunciations for all the ASCII punctuation chars. Wat.
It's as serious as Perl, but where joining the Perl community turns you into Ned Flanders, it's meant to turn you into a pro-monarchy NRX guy.
You might need therapy after, but whenever I've met someone who can't stop saying things like "grok" and "less than awesome" I've always thought they needed whatever the opposite of therapy is. They're so well adjusted you can't stand being near them.
> In this lesson we introduce the notion of a vane, which should be thought of as a kernel module for Arvo (if you don't know what that means yet, just keep reading)
> Following this lesson, we will introduce Gall, a vane used to build user space apps. Then we have a walkthrough where we construct an egg timer as a Gall app that interacts with Behn.
nods Gall is a vane that uses Behn, which is an Arvo kernel module. Got it. Crystal clear.
> Here we see that wind produces a wet gate that takes in two molds, which for the move type for Behn are notes and gifts. When a vane needs to request something of another vane, it %passes a note. When a vane produces a result that was requested, it %gives a gift to the callee.
Fortunately Perl was reasonable. On the other side of the spectrum you have the impenetrable and pretentiously obnoxious Urbit[1]
[1] https://urbit.org/docs/glossary/moon