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The Joy of Concatenative Languages (Part 2)

13 points by gnosis 15y ago

srean 15y ago
Appreciated the pun in the title. Joy is a purely functional language and the archetype of the concatenated style. The original Joy page is down but here is a mirror http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/index.html http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/index.html If I remember correctly there used to be link in the original called "Joy of Programming". If you love this kind of stuff checkout http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360 http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360 very entertaining. Amusingly enough Joy's stack based semantics was not something that was explicitly strived for, but emerged as a consequence of its quest for purity and syntactic simplicity. The post made me check up on CVML. I am delighted that the development on the virtual machine for Cat language has picked up a lot of steam http://code.google.com/p/cvml/ http://code.google.com/p/cvml/ though with mildly altered name. I was keeping an eye on that last year but I guess the author was occupied with the development on another language he was collaborating on called Heron. Cat I think is the only statically typed language of this family. A good resource to check up on such languages is http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page Postscript probably should have been there as well.
sambeau 15y ago
I tried to follow the really interesting link provided to the Cat Programming Language article on Wikipedia. I got this: 01:14, 13 April 2011 Ron Ritzman (talk | contribs) deleted "Cat (programming language)" ‎ Why would anyone delete a useful reference to a serious academic article like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(programming_language)#Semantics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(programming_language)#Sema...
- gnosis 15y ago
  You can see the discussion that led to its deletion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FLog%2F2011_February_11#Cat_.28programming_language.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deleti... It looks like the deletionists decided Cat wasn't notable enough to deserve a Wikipedia article about it. You can read about Wikipedia's notability criteria here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Not...

13 points by gnosis 15y ago

srean 15y ago

Appreciated the pun in the title. Joy is a purely functional language and the archetype of the concatenated style. The original Joy page is down but here is a mirror http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/index.html http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror/index.html If I remember correctly there used to be link in the original called "Joy of Programming". If you love this kind of stuff checkout http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360 http://archive.vector.org.uk/art10000360 very entertaining. Amusingly enough Joy's stack based semantics was not something that was explicitly strived for, but emerged as a consequence of its quest for purity and syntactic simplicity. The post made me check up on CVML. I am delighted that the development on the virtual machine for Cat language has picked up a lot of steam http://code.google.com/p/cvml/ http://code.google.com/p/cvml/ though with mildly altered name. I was keeping an eye on that last year but I guess the author was occupied with the development on another language he was collaborating on called Heron. Cat I think is the only statically typed language of this family. A good resource to check up on such languages is http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page http://concatenative.org/wiki/view/Front%20Page Postscript probably should have been there as well.

sambeau 15y ago

I tried to follow the really interesting link provided to the Cat Programming Language article on Wikipedia. I got this: 01:14, 13 April 2011 Ron Ritzman (talk | contribs) deleted "Cat (programming language)" ‎ Why would anyone delete a useful reference to a serious academic article like this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(programming_language)#Semantics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_(programming_language)#Sema...

gnosis 15y ago
You can see the discussion that led to its deletion here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deletion%2FLog%2F2011_February_11#Cat_.28programming_language.29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArticles_for_deleti... It looks like the deletionists decided Cat wasn't notable enough to deserve a Wikipedia article about it. You can read about Wikipedia's notability criteria here: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Not...