... [..] ... Well, I'll repeat this verbatim. ... I have been very busy myself, with my last semester of teaching before retirement. In addition the mailing...
Hi, I've just heard about Joy and it sounds like a very interesting language. I have a few questions which I'm hoping people can shed some light on. 1. Is Joy...
... Well, right now, I'm writing an action game in Java; for scripting, it uses a language I'm developing that's closely modelled after Joy. Its not exactly...
Slava Pestov
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Nov 19, 2003 4:54 am
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On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Mark Phillips wrote: [..] ... Well, it started off as an exploration. By now it could be used for real world problems by Joy programmers....
... Joy 1 has access to almost the whole standard library of ISO C. At present, the biggest limitation is that there's no way to load foreign routines into the...
... Just a nitpick, Scheme and Common Lisp are strongly typed, not weakly typed. They are dynamically typed though. So they are classified as having...
Chris Double
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Nov 19, 2003 6:48 pm
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From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@...] ... Variables aren't needed for static typing -- strongForth has strong static typing without variables. Joy itself...
From: Mark Phillips [mailto:pierryth@...] ... Yes. See strongForth (Google) for an example and explanation of how to do this. ... No. It would be best...
... [...] ... I've absolutely no experience in Joy (school is eating my time up), but i'd like to exit lurk mode and say that Lisp (and Scheme, afaik) are...
i think the best way to learn about joy is just to jump in and start coding. some years ago i heard ken iverson (the inventor of APL) urge people to pick a...
stevan apter
sa@...
Nov 20, 2003 1:53 am
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Concrete Math Companion is at http://www.jsoftware.com/publications_books.htm ... <image.tiff> ... Michael Manti mmanti@... [Non-text portions of this...
... From: "Mark Phillips" <pierryth@...> To: <concatenative@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:17 PM Subject: [stack] Questions about...
stevan apter
sa@...
Nov 22, 2003 4:48 pm
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Hi There. I am a new member of this group and i want help from you that how to reproduce the following paragraph in formal writing using style and register: "...
Problem 1 Suppose you are given a datafile which consists of (name, telephone number) pairs on each line. An example of datafile is shown below: all...
an interim report on R http://www.apl-385.demon.co.uk/rcs/programs/r/net.htm appears in the current issue of Vector http://www.vector.org.uk/ i've pointed...
stevan apter
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Nov 27, 2003 2:17 pm
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... Ok, I'll bite. How would you write an httpd service in Joy? Does it have a concurrency model? How does one deal w/ a slow connection? ... Ok. Can you...
Hi Alex, ... Currently to do the above it would be necessary to extend the interpreter, ideally through a general mechanism to support foreign language...
hi guys i am new to this group and i was wondering if someone here could help me see i have a yahoo group and i want to add graphics to it so plz help me do so...
this is a cute little problem (and a nice break from contemplating questions about "yahoo group programming languages" and other bizarre messages emanating...
stevan apter
sa@...
Dec 7, 2003 2:00 pm
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Where can I find more information about k and cK? How is cK different from Joy? ... -- Slava Pestov...
Slava Pestov
slava@...
Dec 7, 2003 8:33 pm
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like joy, k is a "real" language: http://www.kx.com/download.htm you can download a free copy, which is size- and message- limited. (i recommend using version...
stevan apter
sa@...
Dec 7, 2003 8:52 pm
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... and here is the "shuffle notation" version: [ "yx--yxy" shuffle " " , " " = &: 1 + 0 ,. "yxb--ybbxb" shuffle + binl -1 + 0 "ybz--yzb" shuffle...
stevan apter
sa@...
Dec 9, 2003 12:53 am
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... Can you explain exactly what this "shuffle notation" is? It looks interesting. -- Slava Pestov...
Slava Pestov
slava@...
Dec 9, 2003 6:01 am
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Hi Stevan, ... Some time ago I wrote some string manipulation functions in Joy. One of these was spliti below: DEFINE str-spliti == (* Si Cb -> Ao : Inclusive...
... hi nick for a minute i thought there was a bug in 'wrap', but no - the bug was in my description: "blank in " contains 10 characters, and the...
stevan apter
sa@...
Dec 9, 2003 12:28 pm
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shuffle takes a string of the form "X--Y" where X is a diagram of the top of the stack as it is, and Y is a diagram of the stack as you want it to be. The...
sa@...
Dec 9, 2003 1:27 pm
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... that is, "blanks in " contains 10 characters....
sa@...
Dec 9, 2003 1:29 pm
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it's worth pointing out that there's a denser form of stack diagram, namely an (arbitrarily nested) list of integers: [0 0] shuffle is dup [0 1] shuffle is...
stevan apter
sa@...
Dec 11, 2003 12:03 pm
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... Once I invented functions like ABCDE = id; BACDE = swap; BBCDE = dup; ABBCD = dupd; or EDCBA == id; EDCAB == swap; DCBAA == dup; ... BCDAA == rotated dup; ...
