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

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.