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So this is the blog of Stevan Apter. As you might guess from having a 3 letter vanity domain, he and this website have been around a long long time. It's mostly

• ofalkaed 9mo ago
  I did not know any of that, did not even consider if it was a vanity domain but did briefly wonder if nsl was the domain for some small country. I think the homepage does a good job of covering everything we need to know and in someways does a better job, but this posting provides a better overview for a HN submission. I included the homepage since some would probably skim the post or only read as much as they need to get the idea and miss the note at the bottom, someone would have probably posted asking where the code was. Thanks for the background info.
  • jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
    Yeah, I stumbled onto J et all after seeing an interesting entry into the ICFP programming contest. So I was on the concatenative languages email list for a bit and knew nsl.com from there. I've always found this snippet interesting: https://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm https://nsl.com/papers/kisntlisp.htm Comparing the lisp to the non linenoise k syntax you can see there really is something compelling to this sort of lifting of iterator at a time fiddling to a higher level of abstraction where you just think about the shape of what you want.