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I read that initially as "Forthtran" and I can't tell if that sounds like a good idea or an awful one
by 6177c40f 4y ago
I read that initially as "Forthtran" and I can't tell if that sounds like a good idea or an awful one
- throwaway17_17 4y agoA compiled, number crunching dialect of Forth with a very good vocabulary (and the accompanying semantics) for n-dimensions matrix calculations sounds pretty neat. I’m surprised no one jumped in with a an APL reference, however there are some significant differences between an array processing language and a concatenative language with Fortran semantics.
- lebuffon 4y agoDr. Julian Noble (RIP) went down that road but realized it was overkill and switched to providing a "formula translator" for Forth. So it takes infix notation and translates it to RPN Forth code than is compiled interactively like normal Forth.