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I'm very puzzled by this language. Why put the verbs at the end of the sentence, for instance? Was this shell inspired by Japanese or German?

• gpderetta 4y ago
  Because that's the very definition of a concatenative language.
  • JadeNB 4y ago
    I don't think that there's anything inherent about concatenative languages that forces them to be postfix. The Wikipedia definition (not authoritative, surely, but one we can all access) is: > A concatenative programming language is a point-free computer programming language in which all expressions denote functions, and the juxtaposition of expressions denotes function composition. As long as all functions are fixed arity—admittedly a serious limitation—there doesn't seem obviously to be any reason you couldn't write the function first (though of course it's fair to ask why you would want to).
    • cyberbanjo 4y ago
      Om is a prefix concatenative language https://www.om-language.org/index.html https://www.om-language.org/index.html
    • gpderetta 4y ago
      I associate concatenative languages with stack languages, which means that the postfix syntax is obvious. But as the sibling comment mentioned, that doesn't necessarily need to be the case.
• layer8 4y ago
  It makes for strict left-to-right evaluation/execution.