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The best introduction to this subject is at the Joy homepage.
In short, concatenative languages behave in a way which looks imperative (like C or Perl), but can be reasoned about in a functional manner (like ML or Haskell).
These languages are only beginning to be studied, although Forth had a heyday in the 80s, and Postscript is notable for being the most commonly metaprogrammed language in existance (a trait which I believe is not a coincidence). |
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Posted - Thu Jun 19, 2008 3:25 pm
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John Nowak
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Posted - Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:27 pm
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Re: rewriting + second order vs. higher order expressivity
Slava has given an interesting example that has made me rethink getting rid of the n-ary 'map' functional: Given an array like {1, f, f, f, 2, f, f, 3, 4, f},
Posted - Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:49 am
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Posted - Thu Jun 19, 2008 7:50 am
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Re: syntax preference question
... Ah, I knew I didn't explain that properly (well, at all really). Let me recap briefly so I can be sure I've covered it. Factor has a family cleave
Posted - Wed Jun 18, 2008 12:07 pm
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