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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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SPREAD: another kid on the block
Let me introduce a new (concatenative?) programming language called SPREAD. SPREAD has - what I believe - many properties that might interest you. SPREADs most
Posted - Sat May 11, 2013 9:36 pm
Robbert van Dalen
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New discussion group for concatenative and stack languages
Just for the fun of it, I've created a Google+ "Community" for us. If you'd like to help me try it out, please feel free to swing on by.
Posted - Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:40 pm
William Tanksley
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Re: Introducing the Om language
I've filled out the Om documentation to hopefully clarify how the whole thing works and explain it from a concatenative standpoint.
Posted - Sun Jan 6, 2013 8:32 pm
Jason Erb
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Re: Introducing the Om language
Fixing formatting issues in the last message... Some examples of valid operators: operator o`p`e`r`a`t`o`r an` operator an` operator` with` `{braces`} an`
Posted - Sat Jan 5, 2013 7:40 pm
Jason Erb
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Re: Introducing the Om language
William, Thanks for the in-depth questions.  Discussions like this are extremely helpful in figuring out what I need to explain better in the documentation.
Posted - Sat Jan 5, 2013 7:39 pm
Jason Erb
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