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I can understand why people get excited about the concatenative paradigm, but I’ll concede that my personal take is “Sounds like some bits of LISP married to th
by moomin 4y ago
I can understand why people get excited about the concatenative paradigm, but I’ll concede that my personal take is “Sounds like some bits of LISP married to the point free obsession of some Haskell programmers”
- iostream25 4y agoactually.... FORTH... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(programming_language)
- astrobe_ 4y agoExcept perhaps that Forth doesn't "obsess" over theory, it is rooted in pragmatism: making a Forth interpreter is easy.
- voxl 4y agoMost if not all concatenative languages are linear. Lisps can also be linear, and languages like Forth can also be non-linear, but there is a cultural divide there.