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Data analysis in Python using the concatenative paradigm

• eindiran 7y ago
  Very cool. OP, what is your previous exposure to concatenative programming? Have you written or used a Forth before? One thing I noticed was that you opted for passing parameters to words directly, rather than placing them on the stack; it does seem to improve readability quite significantly. (eg `c(10.0) | some_word`) The anonymous quotations for combinators are a nice addition as well.
  • punkbrwstr 7y ago
    Thanks! I tried keeping it all stack-based, but I really wanted default arguments. In the end the parameters felt more usable even if they are "impure". I made a bunch of iterations of a postfix calculator for time series before realizing there is a whole world of concatenative langauges. The Factor paper really blew my mind.